Motivational Quotes

Failure

The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall.

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Best Quotes about Failure

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Robbins, Anthony

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

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

George, William Lloyd

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

Edison, Thomas A.

Failure is the path of least persistence

Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

Walt Whitman

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

Eliot, George

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

Bloch, Arthur

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

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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The typical human life seems to be quite unplanned, undirected, unlived, and unsavored. Only those who consciously think about the adventure of living as a matter of making choices among options, which they have found for themselves, ever establish real self-control and live their lives fully.

Albrecht, Karl

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

Hill, Napoleon

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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 pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure all your life.

Gardner, John W.

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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

Proverb, German

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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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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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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

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We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.

Grayson, David

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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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Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

Carl Jung

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

Proverb, African

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

Wooden, John

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The man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere.

Swinnerton, Frank

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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

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The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

Sophocles

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

Viscott, David

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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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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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Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.

Dahlberg, Edward

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If you are bitten by a snake, what's the best thing to do? Remain calm, separate the poison from the rest of your body, suck the poison out. Worst thing to do: get upset, chase and kill snake. Same when someone strikes out at you verbally. Remain calm, don't try to strike back at the other person. Don't let the poison spread throughout your system.

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

Proverb, Turkish

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Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.

Strindberg, J. August

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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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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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Accept failure as a normal part of living. View it as part of the process of exploring your world; make a note of its lessons and move on.

Hobson, Tom

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The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall.

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If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.

Bill Lyon