Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

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Best Quotes about Failure

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

Quentin Crisp

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

Hill, Napoleon

You cannot explain failure any more than you can argue with success.

Clarke, J. Richard

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

I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

Hill, Napoleon

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A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

Confucius

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Lynch, Charles

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

Proverb, Turkish

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The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Your failures won't hurt you until you start blaming them on others.

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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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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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

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

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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

James, William

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Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results.

James, William

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I cannot give the formula for success, but I can give you the formula of failure -- which is try to please everybody.

Swope, Herbert B.

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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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If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.

Porsche, Dr.

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Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Reuther, Walter

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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

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There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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

Picabia, Francis

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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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 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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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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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Grayson, David

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Proverb