Failure Quotes - Page 3

• Winners are not afraid of losing. But losers are. Failure is part of the process of success. People who avoid failure also avoid success.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Success, People

  Robert Kiyosaki (2015). “Rich Dad Poor Dad: What The Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!”, p.151, Robert Kiyosaki

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• My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Perseverance, Humor

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• He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.

  Samuel Smiles

  Inspirational, Motivational, Smile

  1859 Self-Help, ch.11.

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• Learn how to fail intelligently.

  Charles Kettering

  Failing

  Charles Franklin Kettering (1961). “Prophet of progress: selections from the speeches of Charles F. Kettering”

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• You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.

  Zig Ziglar

  Motivational, Attitude, Hiking

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• Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over gain, and you will grow stronger until have accomplished a purpose - not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember.

  Ben Stein

  Moving On, Time, New Beginnings

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• Formula for failure: Try to please everybody.

  Herbert Bayard Swope

  Recovery, Trying, Alcoholics Anonymous

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

  James M. Barrie

  Inspirational, Moving On, Success

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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.

  Bill Vaughan

  Wise, Philosophy, Men

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• I don't want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about.

  Emma Watson

  Care, Want, Watson

  "The Definitive Imagined Emma Watson Commencement Speech" by Katie Calautti, www.mtv.com. May 26, 2014.

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• Our most profitable lessons are learned from failure, not success.

  Frank Davidson

  Success, Learning, Lessons

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• It is not sufficient that I succeed - all others must fail.

  Genghis Khan

  Succeed, Failing, Sufficient

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• The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Motivational, Perseverance

  The Sub-Treasury Speech Springfield, Illinois December 26, 1839

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• One who fears failure limits his activities. Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin again.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Fear, Opportunity

  Henry Ford (2007). “My Life and Work”, p.273, Cosimo, Inc.

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• It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Motivational, Leadership, Perseverance

  Address at Oglethorpe University, 22 May (1932)

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• The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Success, Hope, Lines

  Elbert Hubbard (2005). “Loyalty in Business: One and Twenty Other Good Things”, p.28, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Show me a thoroughly satisfied man - and I will show you a failure.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Success, Educational, Carpe Diem

  "The Diary and Sundry Observations of Thomas Alva Edison". Book by Thomas A. Edison, 1948.

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  I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

  Bill Cosby

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Quoted in Barbara Rowes, The Book of Quotes (1979)

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• You win only if you aren't afraid to lose.

  Hiroaki Aoki

  Motivational, Winning, Stay Positive

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• A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself.

  May Sarton

  Death, Loss, Garden

  May Sarton (2014). “At Seventy: A Journal”, p.53, Open Road Media

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• I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• And each forgets, as he strips and runs With a brilliant, fitful pace, It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones Who win in the lifelong race. And each forgets that his youth has fled, Forgets that his prime is past, Till he stands one day, with a hope that's dead, In the glare of the truth at last.

  Robert W. Service

  Running, Winning, Past

  Robert W. Service (2012). “Robert W. Service: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.46, Dundurn

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• Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty.

  Al Neuharth

  Way, Failing, Reaching

  "USA Today founder Al Neuharth dies in Florida at 89". www.foxnews.com. April 19, 2013.

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• When a man arrives at great prosperity God did it: when he falls into disaster he did it himself.

  Mark Twain

  Fall, Men, Prosperity

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.31, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Thought is born of failure.

  Lancelot Law Whyte

  Born

  Lancelot Law Whyte (1975). “The Universe of Experience: A Worldview Beyond Science and Religion”, p.78, Transaction Publishers

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