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

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

The man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere.

Swinnerton, Frank

Aaron, Hank

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.

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

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

Bill Lyon

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

Aoki, Rocky

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

Schuller, Robert H.

Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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

Hill, Napoleon

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I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

Edison, Thomas A.

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I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.

Hopkins, Tom

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We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free. Tom Robbins Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.

Barton, Bruce

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.

J.K. Rowling

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

Proverb, Chinese

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A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.

Bloch, Arthur

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The man who tries to do something and fails is infinitely better than he who tries to do nothing and succeeds.

Jones, Lloyd

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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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Even a tombstone says good things about a fellow who's down.

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

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no insurmountable barrier except our own inherent weakness of purpose.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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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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Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty.

Neuharth, Al

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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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When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

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

Seneca

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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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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Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.

John Keats

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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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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Failure is the path of least persistence

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When someone is going downhill everyone likes to give them a kick.

Proverb