Motivational Quotes

Failure

If all this happened to you what paradigm might you develop? How might that paradigm affect you in terms of your life from that point on? What does this tell you about Abe? There are no failures, only lessons to be learned.

- Winfrey, Oprah

Best Quotes about Failure

Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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.

Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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

You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.

Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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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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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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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Failure is the path of least persistence

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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

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

Heller, Joseph

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Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times,and what happens when he says, I am a failure.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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

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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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It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.

Baxter, Anne

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

Eliot, 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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The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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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.

Goizueta, Roberto

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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

Proverb, Turkish

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There is no such thing as accidental failure. All failure is at least half imposed.

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

Bloch, Arthur

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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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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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It is for want of application, rather than of means that people fail,

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.

Melville, Herman

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

Chase, Ilka

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

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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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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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

Reuther, Walter

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Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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

Edward Albee

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

Proverb, African

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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