Quotes about failure

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

Edison, Thomas A. on failure
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"There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows."

Eliot, George on failure   

"Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure."

Eliot, George on failure
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"The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best."

Eliot, George on failure   

"We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process."

Engstrom, Ted W. on failure
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"All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible."

Faulkner, William on failure
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"No man is a failure who is enjoying life."

Feather, William on failure   

"If we were faultless we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate."

FeNelon, Francois on failure   

"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 on failure
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"A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost."

Foch, Ferdinand on failure
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"Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently."

Ford, Henry on failure
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"And nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope."

Frost, Robert on failure
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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. on failure
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"He's no failure. He's not dead yet."

George, William Lloyd on failure   

"It takes a lot more energy to fail than to succeed, since it takes a lot of concentrated energy to hold on to beliefs that don't work."

Gillies, Jerry on failure   

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

Givens, Charles J. on failure
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"No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes."

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

Goizueta, Roberto on failure
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"We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring."

Grayson, David on failure
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"Failure too is a form of death..."

Greene, Graham on failure   

"Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success."

Haliburton, Thomas C. on failure
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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. on failure
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"He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody."

Heller, Joseph on failure   

"Sometimes the best gain is to lose."

Herbert, George on failure
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"Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities."

Hill, Napoleon on failure
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"No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind."

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

Hill, Napoleon on failure
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"When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal."

Hill, Napoleon on failure
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"If you are doing your best, you will not have to worry about failure."

Hillyer, Robert S. on failure   

"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 on failure
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"They who lack talent expect things to happen without effort. They ascribe failure to a lack of inspiration or ability, or to misfortune, rather than to insufficient application. At the core of every true talent there is an awareness of the difficulties inherent in any achievement, and the confidence that by persistence and patience something worthwhile will be realized. Thus talent is a species of vigor."

Hoffer, Eric on failure
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"There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house."

Hoffer, Eric on failure   

"Success is 99 percent failure."

Honda, Soichiro on failure
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"I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win."

Hopkins, Tom on failure   

"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 on failure
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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 on failure
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"A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience."

Hubbard, Elbert on failure
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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 on failure
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"There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life."

Huxley, Thomas H. on failure   

"I am often confronted by the necessity of standing by one of my empirical selves and relinquishing the rest. Not that I would not. If I could, be... a great athlete and make a million a year, be a wit, a born -- vivant and a lady killer, as well as a philosopher, a philanthropist ... and saint. But the thing is simply impossible. The millionaire's work would run counter to the saint s; the bon-vivant and the philanthropist would trip each other up; the philosopher and the lady killer could not well keep house in the same tenement of clay. Such different characters may conceivably, at the outset of life. Be alike possible for a man. But to make any one of them actual, the rest must more of less be suppressed. So the seeker of his truest, strongest, deepest self must review the list carefully and pick out on which to stake his salvation. All other selves thereupon become unreal, but the fortunes of this self are real. Its failure are real failures, its triumphs real triumphs carrying shame and gladness with them."

James, William on failure