Motivational Quotes

Failure

If you've never failed you've never tried.

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Best Quotes about Failure

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

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Kaufman, Herbert

If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Eliot, George

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

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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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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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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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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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.

Proverb, African

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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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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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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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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.

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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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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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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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We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.

Merton, Thomas

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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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You win only if you aren't afraid to lose.

Aoki, Rocky

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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

Cole, Edwin Louis

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

Confucius

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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

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

Edward Albee

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

Proverb, Chinese

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In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.

Robertson, Frederick W.

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

Heller, Joseph

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

Edison, Thomas A.