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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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Best Quotes about Failure

1.
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.

2.
Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.
Vauvenargues, Marquis De

3.
An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

4.
You win only if you aren't afraid to lose.
Aoki, Rocky

5.
Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.
Perot, H. Ross

6.
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.
James, William

7.
All honor to him who shall win the prize. The world has cried for a thousand years. But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears.
Miller, Joaquin

8.
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.

9.
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

10.
Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
Ziglar, Zig

11.
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

12.
Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.
Robbins, Anthony

13.
A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.
Confucius

14.
Every person who has become successful has simply formed the habit of doing things that failures dislike doing and will not do.

15.
People don't fail, they give up

16.
They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.
Aldrich, Thomas B.

17.
A hard fall means a high bounce... if you're made of the right material.

18.
You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to fall down flatBut to lie there-that's a disgrace.
Cooke, E. V.

19.
Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.
Samuel McChord Crothers

20.
The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
Yogananda, Paramahansa

21.
Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
Thoreau, Henry David

22.
A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.
Hubbard, Elbert

23.
No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.
Bose, Amar Gopal

24.
You cannot explain failure any more than you can argue with success.
Clarke, J. Richard

25.
Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.
Richardson, Tony

26.
There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.
Keats, John

27.
A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
Bovee, Christian Nevell

28.
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

29.
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

30.
You can fail so very often. But you are not a failure until you give up.

31.
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

32.
Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.
Haliburton, Thomas C.

33.
Failure is the path of least persistence

34.
Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.
Alacia Bessette

35.
Sometimes the best gain is to lose.
Herbert, George

36.
Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.
Kennedy, Robert F.

37.
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.

38.
Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.
Hubbard, Elbert

39.
Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.
Korda, Michael

40.
If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.
Bartkowski, Steve

41.
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.

42.
If you're willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.
Edward Albee

43.
The man who tries to do something and fails is infinitely better than he who tries to do nothing and succeeds.
Jones, Lloyd

44.
We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure all your life.
Gardner, John W.

45.
Anyone seen on a bus after age thirty has been a failure in life.
Loelia, Duchess

46.
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

47.
I think you actually get a kick out of being disappointed and under-achieving, because it's easier, isn't it? Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.
David Nicholls

48.
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

49.
Success is the proper utilization of failure.

50.
No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.
Hill, Napoleon


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