Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

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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.

Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back.

Proverb, Turkish

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

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

Baxter, Anne

Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

Failure does not count. If you accept this, you'll be successful. What causes most people to fail is that after one failure, they'll stop trying.

Burford, Frank

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Viscott, David

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Silicon Valley is a graveyard. Failure is Silicon Valley's greatest strength.

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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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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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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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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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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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

Picabia, Francis

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

George, William Lloyd

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

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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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Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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To win you've got to stay in the game.

Bristol, Claude M.

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If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win

Reuther, Walter

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Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory.

28.

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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Heller, Joseph

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

Ziglar, Zig

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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

Proverb, German

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If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.

Bartkowski, Steve

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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)

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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.

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You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.

Williams, A.L.

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

Keats, John

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

Porsche, Dr.

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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

South, Bishop Robert

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

Bloch, Arthur

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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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