Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Bristol, Claude M.

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

Roosevelt, Theodore

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

Tracy, Brian

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

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

James, William

There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the determined endeavor; the unconquerable will. There is no failure for the man who gets up every time he falls, who rebounds like a rubber ball, who persists when everyone else gives up, who pushes on when everyone else turns back.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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

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I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win.

Hopkins, Tom

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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 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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People don't fail, they give up

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There is no such thing as accidental failure. All failure is at least half imposed.

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Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it's all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you're willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you're willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you've got the potential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.

Sugarman, Joseph

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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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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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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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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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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You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.

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

Eliot, George

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Bloch, Arthur

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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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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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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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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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

Picabia, Francis

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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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I am often confronted by the necessity of standing by one of my empirical selves and relinquishing the rest. Not that I would not. If I could, be... a great athlete and make a million a year, be a wit, a born -- vivant and a lady killer,as well as a philosopher, a philanthropist ... and saint. But the thing is simply impossible. The millionaire's work would run counter to the saint s; the bon-vivant and the philanthropist would trip each other up; the philosopher and the lady killer could not well keep house in the same tenement of clay. Such different characters may conceivably, at the outset of life. Be alike possible for a man. But to make any one of them actual,the rest must more of less be suppressed. So the seeker of his truest, strongest, deepest self must review the list carefully and pick out on which to stake his salvation. All other selves thereupon become unreal, but the fortunes of this self are real. Its failure are real failures, its triumphs real triumphs carrying shame and gladness with them.

James, William

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Remember that your failures are the seeds of your most glorious successes. Be sad if you must, but don't despair.

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Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

Walt Whitman

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The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

Proverb, Chinese

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No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Failures are divided into two classes -- those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

Salak, John Charles