Motivational Quotes

Failure

Past failures are guideposts to success.

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Best Quotes about Failure

There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

Keats, John

If you've never failed you've never tried.

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Proverb, German

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

Proverb, Chinese

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If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.

Bartkowski, Steve

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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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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.

Melville, Herman

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Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

Carl Jung

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

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

Proverb, Turkish

17.

Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.

John Keats

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If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded. You must never regret what might have been. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot see.

Stern, Richard Martin

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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You can always tell who the pioneers are because they have arrows in their back and are lying face down in the dirt.

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All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who live together through long years get to know one another's failings; but they also come to know what is worthy of respect and admiration in those they live with and in themselves. If at the end one can say, This man used to the limit the powers that God granted him; he was worthy of love and respect and of the sacrifices of many people, made in order that he might achieve what he deemed to be his task, then that life has been lived well and there are no regrets.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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I have always felt that although someone may defeat me, and I strike out in a ball game, the pitcher on the particular day was the best player. But I know when I see him again, I'm going to be ready for his curve ball. Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.

Aaron, Hank

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A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Neuharth, Al

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You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.

Williams, A.L.

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There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the determined endeavor; the unconquerable will. There is no failure for the man who gets up every time he falls, who rebounds like a rubber ball, who persists when everyone else gives up, who pushes on when everyone else turns back.

Marden, Orison Swett

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I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

Patton, George S.

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

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Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than I was and began diverting all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

J.K. Rowling

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

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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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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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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

Edward Albee

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

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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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Remember that your failures are the seeds of your most glorious successes. Be sad if you must, but don't despair.

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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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He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.

Miller, Arthur

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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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Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

Waitley, Denis

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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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Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Chase, Ilka

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

Quentin Crisp

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No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.