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

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.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

You must think of failure and defeat as the springboards to new achievements or to the next level of accomplishment.

Brown, Les

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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.

Just because you've lost doesn't necessarily mean you've failed.

You can always tell who the pioneers are because they have arrows in their back and are lying face down in the dirt.

10.

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

Proverb, German

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The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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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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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

Carl Jung

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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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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Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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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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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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

Proverb, African

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Anyone seen on a bus after age thirty has been a failure in life.

Loelia, Duchess

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

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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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Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.

Robbins, Anthony

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There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no insurmountable barrier except our own inherent weakness of purpose.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.

Strindberg, J. August

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Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

Givens, Charles J.

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

Proverb

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Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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People don't fail, they give up

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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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The wise man realistically accepts as part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them. He lives on the principle of nothing attempted, nothing gained and is resolved that if he fails he is going to fail while trying to succeed.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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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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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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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George