Motivational Quotes

Failure

Past failures are guideposts to success.

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Best Quotes about Failure

Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

Samuel McChord Crothers

You can't be a winner and be afraid to lose.

Lynch, Charles

Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

Just because you've lost doesn't necessarily mean you've failed.

Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

You win only if you aren't afraid to lose.

Aoki, Rocky

There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.

Baldwin, James

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

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Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.

Dahlberg, Edward

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The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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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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Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Kaufman, Herbert

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

Neuharth, Al

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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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Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

Carver, George Washington

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I think you actually get a kick out of being disappointed and under-achieving, because it's easier, isn't it? Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.

David Nicholls

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Even a tombstone says good things about a fellow who's down.

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To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.

Viscott, David

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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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When you stand at the edge of the cliff, jump to fly, not to fall.

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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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The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

Seneca

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If you are doing your best, you will not have to worry about failure.

Hillyer, Robert S.

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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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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If you're willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.

Edward Albee

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We are all failures -- at least, all the best of us are.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Every person who has become successful has simply formed the habit of doing things that failures dislike doing and will not do.

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

Quentin Crisp

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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You must think of failure and defeat as the springboards to new achievements or to the next level of accomplishment.

Brown, Les

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No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back.

Proverb, Turkish

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We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.

Engstrom, Ted W.

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Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

Wooden, John

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I have not failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that won't work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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

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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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If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win

Reuther, Walter

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The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.

J.K. Rowling

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Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.

Strindberg, J. August

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet.

Proverb, German