Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Baxter, Anne

Best Quotes about 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

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

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

Kaufman, Herbert

There is no such thing as accidental failure. All failure is at least half imposed.

Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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

There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.

Robbins, Anthony

Many men fail because they quit too soon. They lose faith when the signs are against them. They do not have the courage to hold on, to keep fighting in spite of that which seems insurmountable. If more of us would strike out and attempt the impossible, we very soon would find the truth of that old saying that nothing is impossible... abolish fear and you can accomplish anything you wish.

Welch, Dr. C. E.

A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

Skinner, B(urrhus) F(rederic)

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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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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Failure is the path of least persistence

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We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure all your life.

Gardner, John W.

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results.

James, William

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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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 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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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

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Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

Fitzgerald, Ella

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Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

Carl Jung

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He's no failure. He's not dead yet.

George, William Lloyd

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Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

Waitley, Denis

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

Melville, Herman

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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

Seneca

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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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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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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You can always tell who the pioneers are because they have arrows in their back and are lying face down in the dirt.

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

Cole, Edwin Louis