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

A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed -- I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.

Clemenceau, Georges

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.

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

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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

Eliot, George

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Hill, Napoleon

You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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Just because you've lost doesn't necessarily mean you've failed.

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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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In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.

Robertson, Frederick W.

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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Failure is not the worst thing in the world -- the very worst is not to try

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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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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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The moment avoiding failure becomes your motivation, you're down the path of inactivity. You stumble only if you're moving.

Goizueta, Roberto

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

Proverb, African

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

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

Bill Lyon

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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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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

Wooden, John

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Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory.

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

Neuharth, Al

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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

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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 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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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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I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

Sophocles

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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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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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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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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

Patton, George S.

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

Eliot, George

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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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

Pitino, Rick

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