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155 Powerful Failure Quotes To Lift Your Spirits

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Hmm, what should I guilt-trip myself about today? Nothing. It's easy to get your head all wrapped up in the emotional response you have to something. Blaming yourself for knowing better but still making a mistake. When we fail to meet someone's expectations. When we fail to keep the promises we've made. However, guilt-tripping yourself will never help one overcome an issue or a defeat. Forgive yourself and move on. You know you can do better. You deserve better.

Whether it's googling quotes about failure or motivational quotes, it's a step forward. We, humans, are interesting live beings. We know failure is a part of life, perhaps a blessing in disguise. Yet, we would rather read failure quotes from a total stranger online, who lived decades ago, to give us hope and a breath of fresh air to move forward. And that's perfectly fine. We often forget that we are not the only ones in this world who occasionally feel the ground slipping under one's feet. And interestingly enough, if we find someone who relates to what we are experiencing, it makes a burden 10x lighter.

Perhaps this is why Google, Pinterest, Instagram, Tumblr, and all these websites are a gold mine for powerful quotes about failing and, nonetheless, inspirational quotes. We feel more at peace when we know that we are not alone: feeling defeated and desperately searching for inspiring quotes and ideas to help shine a light on things that feel like the end of the world. But it's not, and you know it.

To help put your mind at ease, we've compiled an exhaustive list of the best quotes on failure, don't give up quotes, how do I move on quotes, call them whatever quotes we could find online. And hopefully, seeing that some of the most remarkable, successful people who walked this earth have faced failure just enough times to make a quote about it will be enough motivation for you to get your head back up.

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#1

155 Powerful Failure Quotes To Lift Your Spirits "Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm." - Winston Churchill

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"It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world." - Charles Kettering

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Heather Vandegrift 2 years ago

Man, just call me Rembrandt, then 🙄

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"I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success." - Paulo Coelho

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ArodTheHorrible 2 years ago

I really like this one

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#4

"Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again." - Richard Branson

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Daniel C. 2 years ago

This is a good one. Often it's the embarrassment of failure that keeps people from trying again.

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155 Powerful Failure Quotes To Lift Your Spirits "An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail." - Edwin Land

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#6

"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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#7

"Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble." - Shah Rukh Khan

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#8

"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

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155 Powerful Failure Quotes To Lift Your Spirits "It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure." - Bill Gates

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K Sauce 2 years ago

F**k this triple headed twatwaffle.

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#10

"Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor." - Truman Capote

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ArodTheHorrible 2 years ago

Failure and salt :D

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#11

"I really don't think life is about the I-could-have-been. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don't mind the failure but I can't imagine that I'd forgive myself if I didn't try." - Nikki Giovanni

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#12

"If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost." - Zig Ziglar

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#13

155 Powerful Failure Quotes To Lift Your Spirits "Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet." - Robert H. Schuller

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#14

"My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure." - Abraham Lincoln

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Wilko Lunenburg 2 years ago

Sometimes I am. Everyone needs to know when to stop.

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#15

"Mistakes are the portals of discovery." - James Joyce

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#16

"Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul." - Douglas MacArthur

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ArodTheHorrible 2 years ago

Let's not get started on his atrocities... I wonder how wrinkled his soul ended up being?

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#17

155 Powerful Failure Quotes To Lift Your Spirits "I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying." - Michael Jordan

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#18

"Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday." Wilma Rudolph

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#19

"There is no such thing as failure. There are only results." - Tony Robbins

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ArodTheHorrible 2 years ago

I like this one, too. Can't stand the guy, but he at least managed to regurgitate some wisdom LOL

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#20

"My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them." - Jack Kerouac

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#21

155 Powerful Failure Quotes To Lift Your Spirits "We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse." - Rudyard Kipling

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#22

"The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same." - Colin R. Davis

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#23

"If you're so afraid of failure, you will never succeed. You have to take chances." - Mario Andretti

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#24

"Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure." - George Edward Woodberry

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#25

155 Powerful Failure Quotes To Lift Your Spirits "Every failure is a step to success." - William Whewell

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#26

"I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right." - Albert Einstein

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#27

"Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out." - Benjamin Franklin

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#28

"Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... Than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat." - Theodore Roosevelt

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#29

155 Powerful Failure Quotes To Lift Your Spirits "Ambition is the last refuge of the failure." - Oscar Wilde

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#30

"Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach." - Roger von Oech

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#31

"There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows." - George Eliot

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#32

"Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough." - Og Mandino

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#33

155 Powerful Failure Quotes To Lift Your Spirits "Your ability to adapt to failure, and navigate your way out of it, absolutely 100 percent makes you who you are." - Viola Davis

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#34

"Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently." - Henry Ford

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NotGiving Myrealname 2 years ago

This got me. I strive to learn from failure, but it is so easy to let a failure eat me from the inside like a parasite.

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#35

"I have self-doubt. I have insecurity. I have fear of failure. I have nights when I show up at the arena and I'm like, 'My back hurts, my feet hurt, my knees hurt. I don't have it. I just want to chill.' We all have self-doubt. You don't deny it, but you also don't capitulate to it. You embrace it." - Kobe Bryant

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Daniel C. 2 years ago

Mamba Mentality!

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#36

"Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure." - Paulo Coelho

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#37

155 Powerful Failure Quotes To Lift Your Spirits "Failure is impossible." - Susan B. Anthony

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#38

"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." - B. F. Skinner

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#39

"Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success." - C. S. Lewis

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#40

"I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process. - Oprah Winfrey

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Sara 2 years ago

What if you love mountain climbing and you tried to rescue someone from a mountain top, but you didn’t make it in time?

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#41

155 Powerful Failure Quotes To Lift Your Spirits "Success represents the 1% of your work which results from the 99% that is called failure." - Soichiro Honda

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ArodTheHorrible 2 years ago (edited)

That's a little close to the 1% of wealth problem.

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#42

"The way most people fail is in not keeping up the heart." - Lady Gregory

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#43

"Success is not built on success. It's built on failure. It's built on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe." - Sumner Redstone

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#44

"But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated." - Ernest Hemingway

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#45

155 Powerful Failure Quotes To Lift Your Spirits "You always pass failure on your way to success." - Mickey Rooney

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#46

"The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success." - Paramahansa Yogananda

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#47

"If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative." - Woody Allen

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#48

"Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments." - Henry Ward Beecher

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#49

155 Powerful Failure Quotes To Lift Your Spirits "If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style." - Quentin Crisp

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#50

"If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure." - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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#51

"The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top." - Joyce Brothers

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#52

"Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable." - Coco Chanel

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#53

155 Powerful Failure Quotes To Lift Your Spirits "Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it." - Mia Hamm

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#54

"Success isn't permanent and failure isn't fatal." - Mike Ditka

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#55

"There are some defeats more triumphant than victories." - Michel de Montaigne

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#56

"Failure to prepare is preparing to fail." - Mike Murdock

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#57

155 Powerful Failure Quotes To Lift Your Spirits "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." - S. I. Hayakawa

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#58

"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." - Thomas A. Edison

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#59

"At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings." - Hector Berlioz

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#60

"Don't be afraid of failure; be afraid of petty success." - Maude Adams

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#61

155 Powerful Failure Quotes To Lift Your Spirits "The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures." - Humphry Davy

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#62

"I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure." - Anne Baxter

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#63

"You gotta lose 'em some of the time. When you do, lose 'em right." - Casey Stengel

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#64

"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden

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#65

155 Powerful Failure Quotes To Lift Your Spirits "Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence." - Colin Powell

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#66

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

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#67

"A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success." - Elbert Hubbard

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#68

"They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?" - Fidel Castro

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#69

155 Powerful Failure Quotes To Lift Your Spirits "It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes." - Anne Baxter

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#70

"True leaders don't invest in buildings. Jesus never built a building. They invest in people. Why? Because success without a successor is failure. So your legacy should not be in buildings, programs, or projects; your legacy must be in people." - Myles Munroe

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#71

"The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows." - Buddha

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#72

"You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space." - Johnny Cash

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#73

155 Powerful Failure Quotes To Lift Your Spirits "It would be great to be able to pass on to someone all of the successes, the failures, and the knowledge that one has had. To help someone, avoid all the fire, pain and anxiety would be wonderful." - Sylvester Stallone

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#74

"Losing is no disgrace if you've given your best." - Jim Palmer

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#75

"Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness." - Oprah Winfrey

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Sara 2 years ago

But I though O.W. didn’t believe in failure.

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#76

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

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#77

155 Powerful Failure Quotes To Lift Your Spirits "Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit." - Napoleon Hill

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#78

"Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are." - Norman Vincent Peale

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#79

"The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure." - Lyndon B. Johnson

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#80

"One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king." - Abraham Maslow

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#81

155 Powerful Failure Quotes To Lift Your Spirits "Show me a good and gracious loser and I'll show you a failure." - Knute Rockne

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#82

"A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else." - John Burroughs

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#83

"You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give." - E. O. Wilson

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#84

"My life has been nothing but a failure." - Claude Monet

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#85

155 Powerful Failure Quotes To Lift Your Spirits "I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win." - Tom Hopkins

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#86

"The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns." - Francis Picabia

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#87

"Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets." - Michael Korda

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#88

"They who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure." - James Allen

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#89

155 Powerful Failure Quotes To Lift Your Spirits "Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do." - Napoleon Hill

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#90

"The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life." - Theodore Roosevelt

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#91

"You will be a failure, until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. This is done by making an affirmation which 'clicks.'" - Florence Scovel Shinn

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#92

"You can be discouraged by failure, or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes, make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success - on the far side of failure." - Thomas J. Watson

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#93

155 Powerful Failure Quotes To Lift Your Spirits "Failure is a great teacher, and I think when you make mistakes and you recover from them and you treat them as valuable learning experiences, then you've got something to share." - Steve Harvey

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#94

"Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." - Thomas A. Edison

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#95

"Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts." - John Wooden

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#96

"Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them." - John C. Maxwell

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#97

155 Powerful Failure Quotes To Lift Your Spirits "Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it." - Thomas Sowell

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#98

"If something's important enough, you should try. Even if - the probable outcome is failure." - Elon Musk

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#99

"There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King." - Orison Swett Marden

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#100

"You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down." - Mary Pickford

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#101

155 Powerful Failure Quotes To Lift Your Spirits "We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery." - Samuel Smiles

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#102

"Success is not the absence of failure; it's the persistence through failure." - Aisha Tyler

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#103

"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent." - Calvin Coolidge

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#104

"It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default." - J. K. Rowling

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#105

"Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important." - Steve Jobs

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#106

155 Powerful Failure Quotes To Lift Your Spirits "Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day." - Jim Rohn

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#107

"I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success." - J. Paul Getty

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#108

"Remember that failure is an event, not a person." - Zig Ziglar

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#109

155 Powerful Failure Quotes To Lift Your Spirits "Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing." - Denis Waitley

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#110

"A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it." - Alexandre Dumas

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#111

"Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures." - Bernard Baruch

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#112

"It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final." - Roger Babson

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#113

155 Powerful Failure Quotes To Lift Your Spirits "The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure." - Laurence J. Peter

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#114

"To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives." - Denis Waitley

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#115

"Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out." - Edwin Markham

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#116

"The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide." - James Baldwin

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#117

155 Powerful Failure Quotes To Lift Your Spirits "Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery." - Winston Churchill

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#118

"For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour." - Mary Kay Ash

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#119

"Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself." - Luc de Clapiers

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#120

"Don't be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed." - Lily Tomlin

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#121

155 Powerful Failure Quotes To Lift Your Spirits "I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy." - Tony Robbins

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#122

"Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success." - Dale Carnegie

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#123

"All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure." - Carl Sandburg

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#124

"Do not let your ambitions become a sanctuary for your failures." - Bryant H. McGill

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#125

155 Powerful Failure Quotes To Lift Your Spirits "Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure." - Confucius

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#126

"The tragedy of life is often not in our failure, but rather in our complacency; not in our doing too much, but rather in our doing too little; not in our living above our ability, but rather in our living below our capacities." - Benjamin E. Mays

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#127

"Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others." - Amelia Earhart

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#128

"Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure." - Gary Ryan Blair

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#129

155 Powerful Failure Quotes To Lift Your Spirits "Honesty is the fastest way to prevent a mistake from turning into a failure." - James Altucher

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#130

"It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... We make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones." - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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#131

"Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure." - Benjamin Disraeli

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#132

"Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something." - Morihei Ueshiba

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#133

155 Powerful Failure Quotes To Lift Your Spirits "Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive." - Andy Grove

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#134

"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." - Swami Sivananda

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#135

"One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them." - Thomas Sowell

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#136

"Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act." - Andre Malraux

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#137

155 Powerful Failure Quotes To Lift Your Spirits "Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." - Thomas A. Edison

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#138

"All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right about face which turns us from failure to success." - Dorothea Brande

8points

#139

"We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes." - Amos Bronson Alcott

8points

#140

"Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances." - Orison Swett Marden

8points

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#141

155 Powerful Failure Quotes To Lift Your Spirits "The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism." - Earl Warren

8points

#142

"There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure." - Colin Powell

8points

#143

"Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement." - Florence Scovel Shinn

8points

#144

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

7points

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#145

155 Powerful Failure Quotes To Lift Your Spirits "To err is human, but it feels divine." - Mae West

7points

#146

"Success comes when people act together; failure tends to happen alone." - Deepak Chopra

7points

#147

"Failure is a word unknown to me." - Muhammad Ali Jinnah

7points

#148

"We may be personally defeated, but our principles never!" - William Lloyd Garrison

7points

#149

155 Powerful Failure Quotes To Lift Your Spirits "I have probably purchased fifty 'hot tips' in my career, maybe even more. When I put them all together, I know I am a net loser." - Charles Schwab

7points

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#150

"There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat." - Ann Landers

7points

#151

"We failed, but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing." - Robert E. Lee

7points

#152

"Before you can win a game, you have to not lose it." - Chuck Noll

7points

#153

155 Powerful Failure Quotes To Lift Your Spirits "You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure." - Zig Ziglar

7points

#154

"Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God." - Charles Horton Cooley

7points

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#155

"In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option. We need to change this attitude toward failure - and celebrate the idea that only by falling on our collective business faces do we learn enough to succeed down the road." - Naveen Jain

7points

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