Motivational Quotes

Failure

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

- Ford, Henry

Best Quotes about Failure

I have always felt that although someone may defeat me, and I strike out in a ball game, the pitcher on the particular day was the best player. But I know when I see him again, I'm going to be ready for his curve ball. Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.

Aaron, Hank

Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.

Dahlberg, Edward

Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

Hill, Napoleon

There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.

Baldwin, James

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.

Pitino, Rick

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

Sivananda, Sri Swami

Accept failure as a normal part of living. View it as part of the process of exploring your world; make a note of its lessons and move on.

Hobson, Tom

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It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Tracy, Brian

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The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

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If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win

Reuther, Walter

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He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.

Miller, Arthur

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The only people who never fail are those who never try.

Chase, Ilka

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Past failures are guideposts to 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.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.

Viscott, David

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Silicon Valley is a graveyard. Failure is Silicon Valley's greatest strength.

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What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.

Phillips, Wendell

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Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

Givens, Charles J.

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It is for want of application, rather than of means that people fail,

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.

Merton, Thomas

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than I was and began diverting all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

J.K. Rowling

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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People don't fail, they give up

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If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect, we will immediately feel overwhelmed.

Robbins, Anthony

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It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.

Baxter, Anne

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You can't be a winner and be afraid to lose.

Lynch, Charles

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There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the determined endeavor; the unconquerable will. There is no failure for the man who gets up every time he falls, who rebounds like a rubber ball, who persists when everyone else gives up, who pushes on when everyone else turns back.

Marden, Orison Swett

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He's no failure. He's not dead yet.

George, William Lloyd

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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.

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No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back.

Proverb, Turkish

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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.

Melville, Herman

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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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.

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I think you actually get a kick out of being disappointed and under-achieving, because it's easier, isn't it? Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.

David Nicholls

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win.

Hopkins, Tom

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You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.

Williams, A.L.