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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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.

Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it's all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you're willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you're willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you've got the potential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.

Sugarman, Joseph

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

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

Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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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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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall.

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

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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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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The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.

Miller, Henry

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Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus.

South, Bishop Robert

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

Edward Albee

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Wooden, John

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

Proverb, German

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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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An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Neuharth, Al

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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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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

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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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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

Skinner, B(urrhus) F(rederic)

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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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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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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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Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Schuller, Robert H.