Motivational Quotes

Failure

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

- Haliburton, Thomas C.

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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

Hoffer, Eric

Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Baxter, Anne

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

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

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Melville, Herman

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Pitino, Rick

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

Confucius

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

Phillips, Wendell

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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If you've never failed you've never tried.

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

Miller, Henry

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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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Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet.

Proverb, German

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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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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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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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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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

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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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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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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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Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

Carver, George Washington

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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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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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

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

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The man who tries to do something and fails is infinitely better than he who tries to do nothing and succeeds.

Jones, Lloyd

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

Seneca

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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.