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

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

George, William Lloyd

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.

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

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

Eliot, George

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

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.

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

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

Brown, Les

Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times,and what happens when he says, I am a failure.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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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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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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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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People don't fail, they give up

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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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Silicon Valley is a graveyard. Failure is Silicon Valley's greatest strength.

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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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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

Quentin Crisp

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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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We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

Kettering, Charles F.

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Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

Nixon, Richard M.

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Failure does not count. If you accept this, you'll be successful. What causes most people to fail is that after one failure, they'll stop trying.

Burford, Frank

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

Neuharth, Al

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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

Wooden, John

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

Cole, Edwin Louis

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Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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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 people who never fail are those who never try.

Chase, Ilka

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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

Bill Lyon

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

Melville, Herman

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

Confucius

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We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.

Merton, Thomas

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

Heller, Joseph

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.