Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

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Best Quotes about Failure

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

Confucius

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

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

In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try.

Viscott, David

You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

Cole, Edwin Louis

There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

Hoffer, Eric

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

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Quentin Crisp

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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

Baxter, Anne

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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 must think of failure and defeat as the springboards to new achievements or to the next level of accomplishment.

Brown, Les

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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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The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

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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

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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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If all this happened to you what paradigm might you develop? How might that paradigm affect you in terms of your life from that point on? What does this tell you about Abe? There are no failures, only lessons to be learned.

Winfrey, Oprah

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Failures are divided into two classes -- those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

Salak, John Charles

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

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The only people who never fail are those who never try.

Chase, Ilka

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

Sophocles

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

Jones, Lloyd

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Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

Fitzgerald, Ella

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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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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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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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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Picabia, Francis

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

Waitley, Denis

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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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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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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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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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.

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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.