Motivational Quotes

Failure

Past failures are guideposts to success.

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Best Quotes about Failure

Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty.

Neuharth, Al

Past failures are guideposts to success.

If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

All honor to him who shall win the prize. The world has cried for a thousand years. But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears.

Miller, Joaquin

The only people who never fail are those who never try.

Chase, Ilka

Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times,and what happens when he says, I am a failure.

Hayakawa, S. I.

A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.

Bloch, Arthur

The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.

Picabia, Francis

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A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed -- I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.

Clemenceau, Georges

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I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win.

Hopkins, Tom

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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I am often confronted by the necessity of standing by one of my empirical selves and relinquishing the rest. Not that I would not. If I could, be... a great athlete and make a million a year, be a wit, a born -- vivant and a lady killer,as well as a philosopher, a philanthropist ... and saint. But the thing is simply impossible. The millionaire's work would run counter to the saint s; the bon-vivant and the philanthropist would trip each other up; the philosopher and the lady killer could not well keep house in the same tenement of clay. Such different characters may conceivably, at the outset of life. Be alike possible for a man. But to make any one of them actual,the rest must more of less be suppressed. So the seeker of his truest, strongest, deepest self must review the list carefully and pick out on which to stake his salvation. All other selves thereupon become unreal, but the fortunes of this self are real. Its failure are real failures, its triumphs real triumphs carrying shame and gladness with them.

James, William

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The man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere.

Swinnerton, Frank

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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When someone is going downhill everyone likes to give them a kick.

Proverb

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We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free. Tom Robbins Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.

Barton, Bruce

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Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Waitley, Denis

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To win you've got to stay in the game.

Bristol, Claude M.

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Those who have failed miserably are often the first to see God's formula for success.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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You can fail so very often. But you are not a failure until you give up.

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

Fitzgerald, Ella

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The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

Eliot, George

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You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.

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Anyone seen on a bus after age thirty has been a failure in life.

Loelia, Duchess

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The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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Silicon Valley is a graveyard. Failure is Silicon Valley's greatest strength.

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Failure is not the worst thing in the world -- the very worst is not to try

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

Kettering, Charles F.

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A hard fall means a high bounce... if you're made of the right material.

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The wise man realistically accepts as part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them. He lives on the principle of nothing attempted, nothing gained and is resolved that if he fails he is going to fail while trying to succeed.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

Heller, Joseph

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If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

Hoffer, Eric

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I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Robbins, Anthony

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

Mansfield, Katherine

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From time to time, life as a leader can look hopeless. To help you, consider a man who lived through this: Failed in business at age 31. Defeated for the legislature at 32. Again failed in business at 34. Sweetheart died at 35. Had a nervous breakdown at 36. Defeated in election at 38. Defeated for Congress at 43. Defeated for Congress at 46. Defeated for Congress at 48. Defeated for Senate at 55. Defeated for Vice President at 56. Defeated for Senate at 58. Elected President at age 60. This man was Abraham Lincoln.

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

Proverb, Chinese

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If you are bitten by a snake, what's the best thing to do? Remain calm, separate the poison from the rest of your body, suck the poison out. Worst thing to do: get upset, chase and kill snake. Same when someone strikes out at you verbally. Remain calm, don't try to strike back at the other person. Don't let the poison spread throughout your system.

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

Korda, Michael

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It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not lived at all. In which case, you've failed by default.

J.K. Rowling

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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

49.

We learn from failure much more than from success; we often discover what we will do by finding our what we will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Smiles, Samuel

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Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

Givens, Charles J.