Failure Motivational Quotes

• A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Success, Atheist

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.108, Vintage

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• Do what you can, with what you have and do it now!

  George Washington Carver

  New Beginnings, Today Not Tomorrow, Words Of Wisdom

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• The world is full of educated derelicts.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Perseverance, Determination, Persistence

  Quoted in Quotable Calvin Coolidge, ed. Peter Hannaford (2001).

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  Criticism is something we can avoid easily
  by saying nothing, doing nothing,
  and being nothing.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Relationship, Failure

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• When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Appropriate Technology: A Focus for the Nineties". Book by Robert William Stevens, 1991.

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• If at first you don't succeed, you're obviously not me.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Success, Inspirational Sports, Firsts

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

  Napoleon Hill

  Success, Perseverance, Attitude

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.92, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• If at first you don't succeed, you can always become an ultramarathoner.

  Bruce Fordyce

  Success, Inspirational Sports, Firsts

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• We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure.

  John W. Gardner

  Failure, Pay, Heavy

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• The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.91, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• 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.

  John W. Gardner

  Failure, Learning, Want

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• If at first you don't succeed, You're not an Alpha

  Lisi Harrison

  Success, Inspirational Sports, Firsts

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• If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Wisdom, Time, Stress

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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.

  John W. Gardner

  Courage, Powerful, Fear

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• You always pass failure on the way to success.

  Mickey Rooney

  Life, Motivational, Success

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• Don't worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try.

  Jack Canfield

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Twitter post from Oct 08, 2015

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• One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.

  John W. Gardner

  Failure, Reading, Learning

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• You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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  Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.

  Samuel Beckett

  Inspirational, Motivational, Encouraging

  1983 Worst ward Ho.

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• Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

  John Wooden

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "This Speech Was Given Before The #4Women4AllWomen Run" by Powdered Feet, womensrunning.competitor.com. January 25, 2017.

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  In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.

  Bill Cosby

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Twitter post from Nov 18, 2009

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• Remember that failure is an event, not a person.

  Zig Ziglar

  Love, Motivational, Family

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Nov 02, 2014

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

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Death, Failure

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Nov 29, 2014

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  Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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