Quotes about failure

"There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient."

Sivananda, Sri Swami on failure
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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 on failure   

"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) on failure   

"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 on failure
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"It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done."

Smiles, Samuel on failure   

"I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating."

Sophocles on failure
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"Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus."

South, Bishop Robert on failure
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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 on failure   

"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 on failure   

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis on failure
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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 on failure   

"The only time you don't fail is the last time you try anything -- and it works."

Strong, William on failure   

"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 on failure
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"The man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere."

Swinnerton, Frank on failure   

"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. on failure
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"Men are born to succeed, not to fail."

Thoreau, Henry David on failure
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"It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going."

Tracy, Brian on failure
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"The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall."

Unknown, Source on failure   

"There is no such thing as accidental failure. All failure is at least half imposed."

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

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

Unknown, Source on failure   

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

Unknown, Source on failure
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"Failure is the path of least persistence"

Unknown, Source on failure
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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."

Unknown, Source on failure
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"Even a tombstone says good things about a fellow who's down."

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

Unknown, Source on failure
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"An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots."

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"Success is the proper utilization of failure."

Unknown, Source on failure
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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."

Unknown, Source on failure
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"If you've never failed you've never tried."

Unknown, Source on failure
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"Just because you've lost doesn't necessarily mean you've failed."

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"Past failures are guideposts to success."

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"People don't fail, they give up"

Unknown, Source on failure
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"Silicon Valley is a graveyard. Failure is Silicon Valley's greatest strength."

Unknown, Source on failure   

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

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

Unknown, Source on failure
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"When you stand at the edge of the cliff, jump to fly, not to fall."

Unknown, Source on failure
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"You can always tell who the pioneers are because they have arrows in their back and are lying face down in the dirt."

Unknown, Source on failure   

"You can fail so very often. But you are not a failure until you give up."

Unknown, Source on failure
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"When you fall, don't get up empty handed"

Unknown, Source on failure