Motivational Quotes

Failure

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

- Schuller, Robert H.

Best Quotes about Failure

There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

Keats, John

All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who live together through long years get to know one another's failings; but they also come to know what is worthy of respect and admiration in those they live with and in themselves. If at the end one can say, This man used to the limit the powers that God granted him; he was worthy of love and respect and of the sacrifices of many people, made in order that he might achieve what he deemed to be his task, then that life has been lived well and there are no regrets.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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

Pitino, Rick

The moment avoiding failure becomes your motivation, you're down the path of inactivity. You stumble only if you're moving.

Goizueta, Roberto

Just because you've lost doesn't necessarily mean you've failed.

In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.

Robertson, Frederick W.

No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.

Bose, Amar Gopal

Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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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.

Waitley, Denis

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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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The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Phillips, Wendell

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We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.

Randy K. Milholland

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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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A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

Patton, George S.

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.

Miller, Henry

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You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

Disney, Walt

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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Failures are divided into two classes -- those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

Salak, John Charles

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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Failure is not the worst thing in the world -- the very worst is not to try

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.

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People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

Lao-Tzu

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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Anyone seen on a bus after age thirty has been a failure in life.

Loelia, Duchess

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I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.

Baxter, Anne

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

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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

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To win you've got to stay in the game.

Bristol, Claude M.

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You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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When you stand at the edge of the cliff, jump to fly, not to fall.

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It takes a lot more energy to fail than to succeed, since it takes a lot of concentrated energy to hold on to beliefs that don't work.

Gillies, Jerry

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A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed -- I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.

Clemenceau, Georges

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You must think of failure and defeat as the springboards to new achievements or to the next level of accomplishment.

Brown, Les

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

Melville, Herman

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Your failures won't hurt you until you start blaming them on others.

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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

Quentin Crisp

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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Every person who has become successful has simply formed the habit of doing things that failures dislike doing and will not do.

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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