Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Mckinnon, Dan

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Proverb, Turkish

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.

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.

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

Salak, John Charles

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

Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

When you stand at the edge of the cliff, jump to fly, not to fall.

Every person who has become successful has simply formed the habit of doing things that failures dislike doing and will not do.

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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Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus.

South, Bishop Robert

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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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Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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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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Remember that your failures are the seeds of your most glorious successes. Be sad if you must, but don't despair.

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If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.

Porsche, Dr.

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

Disney, Walt

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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

Quentin Crisp

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

Heller, Joseph

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

Loelia, Duchess

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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 not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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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 failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.

Marcus, Greil

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure all your life.

Gardner, John W.

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If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded. You must never regret what might have been. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot see.

Stern, Richard Martin

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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.

Dahlberg, Edward

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Accept failure as a normal part of living. View it as part of the process of exploring your world; make a note of its lessons and move on.

Hobson, Tom

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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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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The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Wooden, John

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I have always felt that although someone may defeat me, and I strike out in a ball game, the pitcher on the particular day was the best player. But I know when I see him again, I'm going to be ready for his curve ball. Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.

Aaron, Hank

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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Failure does not count. If you accept this, you'll be successful. What causes most people to fail is that after one failure, they'll stop trying.

Burford, Frank

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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