Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Bristol, Claude M.

Best Quotes about Failure

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

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

Failure is the path of least persistence

Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

Winfrey, Oprah

If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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

Robbins, Anthony

Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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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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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A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.

Bloch, Arthur

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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 it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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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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Your failures won't hurt you until you start blaming them on others.

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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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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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If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded. You must never regret what might have been. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot see.

Stern, Richard Martin

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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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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The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.

Picabia, Francis

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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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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Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

Korda, Michael

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

Quentin Crisp

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

Neuharth, Al

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Melville, Herman

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

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

George, William Lloyd

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Bill Lyon

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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

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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It takes a lot more energy to fail than to succeed, since it takes a lot of concentrated energy to hold on to beliefs that don't work.

Gillies, Jerry

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.

Keats, John

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