Motivational Quotes

Failure

People don't fail, they give up

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Best Quotes about Failure

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

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.

Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Baxter, Anne

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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

Pitino, Rick

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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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You can't be a winner and be afraid to lose.

Lynch, Charles

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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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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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I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.

Hopkins, Tom

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win.

Hopkins, Tom

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

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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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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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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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.

Baldwin, James

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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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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Chase, Ilka

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Edward Albee

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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.