Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

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Best Quotes about Failure

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

Wooden, John

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

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

Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Neuharth, Al

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.

The moment avoiding failure becomes your motivation, you're down the path of inactivity. You stumble only if you're moving.

Goizueta, Roberto

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

Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.

Stein, Ben

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

Reuther, Walter

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

Chase, Ilka

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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

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Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

Fitzgerald, Ella

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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

Proverb, German

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

Salak, John Charles

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Picabia, Francis

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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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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

Carver, George Washington

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who live together through long years get to know one another's failings; but they also come to know what is worthy of respect and admiration in those they live with and in themselves. If at the end one can say, This man used to the limit the powers that God granted him; he was worthy of love and respect and of the sacrifices of many people, made in order that he might achieve what he deemed to be his task, then that life has been lived well and there are no regrets.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Proverb, Turkish

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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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You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to fall down flatBut to lie there-that's a disgrace.

Cooke, E. V.

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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 only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Kaufman, Herbert

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

Hill, Napoleon

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All honor to him who shall win the prize. The world has cried for a thousand years. But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears.

Miller, Joaquin

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We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

Skinner, B(urrhus) F(rederic)

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There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.