Motivational Quotes

Failure

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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Best Quotes about Failure

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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

Swinnerton, Frank

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

Grayson, David

Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Neuharth, Al

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

Ziglar, Zig

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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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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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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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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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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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Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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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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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

Korda, Michael

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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.

Keats, John

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We learn from failure much more than from success; we often discover what we will do by finding our what we will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Smiles, Samuel

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A hard fall means a high bounce... if you're made of the right material.

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A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed -- I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.

Clemenceau, Georges

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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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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Baxter, Anne

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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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You win only if you aren't afraid to lose.

Aoki, Rocky

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We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.

Randy K. Milholland

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

George, William Lloyd

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

Edward Albee

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

Picabia, Francis

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