Motivational Quotes

Failure

Many men fail because they quit too soon. They lose faith when the signs are against them. They do not have the courage to hold on, to keep fighting in spite of that which seems insurmountable. If more of us would strike out and attempt the impossible, we very soon would find the truth of that old saying that nothing is impossible... abolish fear and you can accomplish anything you wish.

- Welch, Dr. C. E.

Best Quotes about Failure

Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times,and what happens when he says, I am a failure.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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

Bloch, Arthur

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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

Melville, Herman

Failure is the path of least persistence

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

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

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

Mckinnon, Dan

Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not lived at all. In which case, you've failed by default.

J.K. Rowling

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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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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Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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Failure does not count. If you accept this, you'll be successful. What causes most people to fail is that after one failure, they'll stop trying.

Burford, Frank

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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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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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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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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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

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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

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.

Randy K. Milholland

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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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I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.

Baxter, Anne

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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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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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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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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Proverb, German

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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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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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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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It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Tracy, Brian

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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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Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory.

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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.

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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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When you fall, don't get up empty handed