Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- George, William Lloyd

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Eliot, George

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

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.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.

Williams, A.L.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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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If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.

Porsche, Dr.

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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Anyone seen on a bus after age thirty has been a failure in life.

Loelia, Duchess

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You can't be a winner and be afraid to lose.

Lynch, Charles

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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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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

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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

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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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If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect, we will immediately feel overwhelmed.

Robbins, Anthony

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

Seneca

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There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

Keats, John

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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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Just because you've lost doesn't necessarily mean you've failed.

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

Neuharth, Al

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

Ziglar, Zig

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Korda, Michael

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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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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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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Hopkins, Tom