Motivational Quotes

Failure

Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

- Alacia Bessette

Best Quotes about Failure

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

However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Brown, Les

You cannot explain failure any more than you can argue with success.

Clarke, J. Richard

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

Confucius

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

Proverb

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

Proverb, Turkish

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.

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

Pitino, Rick

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet.

Proverb, German

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If all this happened to you what paradigm might you develop? How might that paradigm affect you in terms of your life from that point on? What does this tell you about Abe? There are no failures, only lessons to be learned.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Loelia, Duchess

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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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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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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.

Marcus, Greil

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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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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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He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

Heller, Joseph

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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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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

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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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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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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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The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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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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The typical human life seems to be quite unplanned, undirected, unlived, and unsavored. Only those who consciously think about the adventure of living as a matter of making choices among options, which they have found for themselves, ever establish real self-control and live their lives fully.

Albrecht, Karl

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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If you're willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.

Edward Albee

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

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

Proverb, African

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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

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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Eliot, George

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

Reuther, Walter