Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Edison, Thomas A.

Best Quotes about Failure

Past failures are guideposts to success.

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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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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 are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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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 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

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Even a tombstone says good things about a fellow who's down.

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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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If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results.

James, William

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

Grayson, David

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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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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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Melville, Herman

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Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it's all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you're willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you're willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you've got the potential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.

Sugarman, Joseph

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

George, William Lloyd

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Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

Patton, George S.

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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

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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

James, William

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To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.

Viscott, David

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

Bill Lyon

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

Baxter, Anne

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Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.