Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Brown, Les

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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.

It is for want of application, rather than of means that people fail,

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

Salak, John Charles

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

Baxter, Anne

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

Pitino, Rick

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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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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

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All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who live together through long years get to know one another's failings; but they also come to know what is worthy of respect and admiration in those they live with and in themselves. If at the end one can say, This man used to the limit the powers that God granted him; he was worthy of love and respect and of the sacrifices of many people, made in order that he might achieve what he deemed to be his task, then that life has been lived well and there are no regrets.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

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Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

Ziglar, Zig

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Proverb

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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

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You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to fall down flatBut to lie there-that's a disgrace.

Cooke, E. V.

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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

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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 world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.

Picabia, Francis

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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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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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Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus.

South, Bishop Robert

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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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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Eliot, George

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

Hopkins, Tom

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What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.

Phillips, Wendell

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Bill Lyon

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.

Viscott, David

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I have not failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that won't work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.

Miller, Henry

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.