Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

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Best Quotes about Failure

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

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

Swinnerton, Frank

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

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

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

Bloch, Arthur

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

Failures are divided into two classes -- those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

Salak, John Charles

Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty.

Neuharth, Al

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

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

Proverb

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What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.

Phillips, Wendell

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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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A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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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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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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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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Many men fail because they quit too soon. They lose faith when the signs are against them. They do not have the courage to hold on, to keep fighting in spite of that which seems insurmountable. If more of us would strike out and attempt the impossible, we very soon would find the truth of that old saying that nothing is impossible... abolish fear and you can accomplish anything you wish.

Welch, Dr. C. E.

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

Lao-Tzu

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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If you are doing your best, you will not have to worry about failure.

Hillyer, Robert S.

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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

Sophocles

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

Hopkins, Tom

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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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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Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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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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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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People don't fail, they give up

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

Quentin Crisp

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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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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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Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.

John Keats