Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Failure

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Past failures are guideposts to success.

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

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

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

Reuther, Walter

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Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.

Strindberg, J. August

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If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.

Bill Lyon

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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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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

James, William

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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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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There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Proverb, Turkish

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Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

Hill, Napoleon

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If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

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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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If you are doing your best, you will not have to worry about failure.

Hillyer, Robert S.

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It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not lived at all. In which case, you've failed by default.

J.K. Rowling

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Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

Carver, George Washington

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Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try.

Viscott, David

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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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Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.

Mckinnon, Dan

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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.

Proverb, African

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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

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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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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

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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

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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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Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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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

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

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

Quentin Crisp

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Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

Ziglar, Zig

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We learn from failure much more than from success; we often discover what we will do by finding our what we will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Smiles, Samuel

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If you are bitten by a snake, what's the best thing to do? Remain calm, separate the poison from the rest of your body, suck the poison out. Worst thing to do: get upset, chase and kill snake. Same when someone strikes out at you verbally. Remain calm, don't try to strike back at the other person. Don't let the poison spread throughout your system.

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If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.