Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

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

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

People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

Lao-Tzu

Failure is the path of least persistence

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 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

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

Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

George, William Lloyd

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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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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Heller, Joseph

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

Viscott, David

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.

Randy K. Milholland

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All honor to him who shall win the prize. The world has cried for a thousand years. But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears.

Miller, Joaquin

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

Reuther, Walter

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

Neuharth, Al

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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

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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 doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Tracy, Brian

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.

Robbins, Anthony

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

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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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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Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than I was and began diverting all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

J.K. Rowling

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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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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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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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I have not failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that won't work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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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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You can't be a winner and be afraid to lose.

Lynch, Charles

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

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart