| Failure Quotations to Inspire and Motivate A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost. Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped. If you can't make a mistake, you can't make anything. I don't know the the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everbody. It's not whether you get knocked down. It's whether you get up again. There is always another chance... This thing called 'failure' is not falling down, but staying down. Far better it is 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 that gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat. Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who does nothing because he could only do a little. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something. Trying to grow up is hurting, you know. You make mistakes. You try to learn from them, and when you don't, it hurts even more. It's okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers -- they help us to learn. The greatest mistake a man can ever make is to be afraid of making one. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because that's where you will find success. On the far side of failure. 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 make a mistake never made a discovery. A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honourable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing. It is much easier to be critical than to be correct. There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth - not going all the way, and not starting. An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it. I have made mistakes, but I never made the mistake of claiming that I never made one. Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave. All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes. The way a man plays a game shows some of his character. The way he loses shows all of it. Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail. If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk. 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. There is no failure except in no longer trying. A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else. There are two kinds of failures: The man who will do nothing he is told, and the man who will do nothing else. If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate. Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm. It is no sin to attempt and fail. The only sin is not to make the attempt. Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently. 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. I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate. Many people dream of success. To me, success can only be achieved through repeated failure and introspection. Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses. No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward. He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody. Failure is the tuition you pay for success. I know fear is an obstacle for some people, but it is an illusion to me . . . Failure always made me try harder next time. Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet. Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient. |
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