Motivational Quotes

Failure

People don't fail, they give up

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Best Quotes about Failure

The man who tries to do something and fails is infinitely better than he who tries to do nothing and succeeds.

Jones, Lloyd

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

Misfortunes one can endure -- they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults -- Ah! there is the sting of life.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Eliot, George

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

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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.

Marcus, Greil

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

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

Dahlberg, Edward

10.

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

11.

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

Hopkins, Tom

12.

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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I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.

Hopkins, Tom

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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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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There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no insurmountable barrier except our own inherent weakness of purpose.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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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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Accept failure as a normal part of living. View it as part of the process of exploring your world; make a note of its lessons and move on.

Hobson, Tom

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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.

24.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

Lao-Tzu

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We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.

Grayson, David

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

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.

Mckinnon, Dan

32.

The typical human life seems to be quite unplanned, undirected, unlived, and unsavored. Only those who consciously think about the adventure of living as a matter of making choices among options, which they have found for themselves, ever establish real self-control and live their lives fully.

Albrecht, Karl

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What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.

Phillips, Wendell

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You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

Disney, Walt

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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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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

37.

We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Bloch, Arthur

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People don't fail, they give up

40.

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

41.

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

Melville, Herman

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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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You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

Cole, Edwin Louis

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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.

46.

If all this happened to you what paradigm might you develop? How might that paradigm affect you in terms of your life from that point on? What does this tell you about Abe? There are no failures, only lessons to be learned.

Winfrey, Oprah

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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There is no such thing as accidental failure. All failure is at least half imposed.

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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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