Motivational Quotes

Failure

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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Best Quotes about Failure

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.

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

Cole, Edwin Louis

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

Baxter, Anne

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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.

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)

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.

Porsche, Dr.

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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

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

Miller, Henry

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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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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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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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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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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

Chase, Ilka

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Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

Wooden, John

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If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect, we will immediately feel overwhelmed.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free. Tom Robbins Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.

Barton, Bruce

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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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It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.

Stein, Ben

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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When someone is going downhill everyone likes to give them a kick.

Proverb

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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

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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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Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.