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

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Kaufman, Herbert

Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

Confucius

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.

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

On this path effort never goes to waste, and there is no failure. Even a little effort toward spiritual awareness will protect you from the greatest fear.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Reuther, Walter

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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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

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

Viscott, David

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.

Stein, Ben

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We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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

Proverb, African

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

Phillips, Wendell

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No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Baxter, Anne

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Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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Aaron, Hank

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Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

Samuel McChord Crothers

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We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Quentin Crisp

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

Cole, Edwin Louis

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Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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I am often confronted by the necessity of standing by one of my empirical selves and relinquishing the rest. Not that I would not. If I could, be... a great athlete and make a million a year, be a wit, a born -- vivant and a lady killer,as well as a philosopher, a philanthropist ... and saint. But the thing is simply impossible. The millionaire's work would run counter to the saint s; the bon-vivant and the philanthropist would trip each other up; the philosopher and the lady killer could not well keep house in the same tenement of clay. Such different characters may conceivably, at the outset of life. Be alike possible for a man. But to make any one of them actual,the rest must more of less be suppressed. So the seeker of his truest, strongest, deepest self must review the list carefully and pick out on which to stake his salvation. All other selves thereupon become unreal, but the fortunes of this self are real. Its failure are real failures, its triumphs real triumphs carrying shame and gladness with them.

James, William

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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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If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

Seneca

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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You win only if you aren't afraid to lose.

Aoki, Rocky

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We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.

Grayson, David

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If you've never failed you've never tried.

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall.

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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.

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

Korda, Michael

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Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.

Keats, John

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Misfortunes one can endure -- they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults -- Ah! there is the sting of life.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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.

Sivananda, Sri Swami