Motivational Quotes

Failure

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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Best Quotes about Failure

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

Schuller, Robert H.

Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

You can always tell who the pioneers are because they have arrows in their back and are lying face down in the dirt.

If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded. You must never regret what might have been. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot see.

Stern, Richard Martin

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

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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

Miller, Henry

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

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.

Grayson, David

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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

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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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

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The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Anyone seen on a bus after age thirty has been a failure in life.

Loelia, Duchess

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

Baxter, Anne

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

Proverb, German

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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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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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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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If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.

Bill Lyon

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

George, William Lloyd

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

Keats, John

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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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Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

Hill, Napoleon

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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 business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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

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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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

Korda, Michael

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

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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 have failed miserably are often the first to see God's formula for success.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.

Viscott, David

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

Bloch, Arthur

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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

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

Melville, Herman

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I am often confronted by the necessity of standing by one of my empirical selves and relinquishing the rest. Not that I would not. If I could, be... a great athlete and make a million a year, be a wit, a born -- vivant and a lady killer,as well as a philosopher, a philanthropist ... and saint. But the thing is simply impossible. The millionaire's work would run counter to the saint s; the bon-vivant and the philanthropist would trip each other up; the philosopher and the lady killer could not well keep house in the same tenement of clay. Such different characters may conceivably, at the outset of life. Be alike possible for a man. But to make any one of them actual,the rest must more of less be suppressed. So the seeker of his truest, strongest, deepest self must review the list carefully and pick out on which to stake his salvation. All other selves thereupon become unreal, but the fortunes of this self are real. Its failure are real failures, its triumphs real triumphs carrying shame and gladness with them.

James, William

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

Neuharth, Al

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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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Your failures won't hurt you until you start blaming them on others.

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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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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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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