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

Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

Walt Whitman

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

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Eliot, George

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.

Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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

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

They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.

Keats, John

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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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If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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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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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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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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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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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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Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Lynch, Charles

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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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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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He's no failure. He's not dead yet.

George, William Lloyd

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Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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On this path effort never goes to waste, and there is no failure. Even a little effort toward spiritual awareness will protect you from the greatest fear.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Porsche, Dr.

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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

Proverb, German

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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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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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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The wise man realistically accepts as part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them. He lives on the principle of nothing attempted, nothing gained and is resolved that if he fails he is going to fail while trying to succeed.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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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.

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

Proverb, Turkish

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

Ziglar, Zig

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

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

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

Proverb

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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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

Keats, John

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Hillyer, Robert S.

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

Edison, Thomas A.