Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Bristol, Claude M.

Best Quotes about Failure

Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

Givens, Charles J.

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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

Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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

Korda, Michael

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

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

If you are bitten by a snake, what's the best thing to do? Remain calm, separate the poison from the rest of your body, suck the poison out. Worst thing to do: get upset, chase and kill snake. Same when someone strikes out at you verbally. Remain calm, don't try to strike back at the other person. Don't let the poison spread throughout your system.

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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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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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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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A hard fall means a high bounce... if you're made of the right material.

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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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We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.

Engstrom, Ted W.

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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

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

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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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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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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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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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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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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Proverb, African

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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

Bill Lyon

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From time to time, life as a leader can look hopeless. To help you, consider a man who lived through this: Failed in business at age 31. Defeated for the legislature at 32. Again failed in business at 34. Sweetheart died at 35. Had a nervous breakdown at 36. Defeated in election at 38. Defeated for Congress at 43. Defeated for Congress at 46. Defeated for Congress at 48. Defeated for Senate at 55. Defeated for Vice President at 56. Defeated for Senate at 58. Elected President at age 60. This man was Abraham Lincoln.

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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When someone is going downhill everyone likes to give them a kick.

Proverb

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

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

Baxter, Anne

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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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Those who have failed miserably are often the first to see God's formula for success.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.