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

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

The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

Proverb, Chinese

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.

Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus.

South, Bishop Robert

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

Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.

Pitino, Rick

Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.

Robbins, Anthony

10.

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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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

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No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

Heller, Joseph

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The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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I cannot give the formula for success, but I can give you the formula of failure -- which is try to please everybody.

Swope, Herbert B.

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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.

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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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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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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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

Loelia, Duchess

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The moment avoiding failure becomes your motivation, you're down the path of inactivity. You stumble only if you're moving.

Goizueta, Roberto

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

Baxter, Anne

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The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

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It takes a lot more energy to fail than to succeed, since it takes a lot of concentrated energy to hold on to beliefs that don't work.

Gillies, Jerry

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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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Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

Winfrey, Oprah

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If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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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.

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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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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

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.