Motivational Quotes

Failure

I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.

- Hopkins, Tom

Best Quotes about Failure

Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

We are all failures -- at least, all the best of us are.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Givens, Charles J.

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

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

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

George, William Lloyd

Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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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We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.

Grayson, David

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

Pitino, Rick

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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The only people who never fail are those who never try.

Chase, Ilka

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

Bloch, Arthur

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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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Every person who has become successful has simply formed the habit of doing things that failures dislike doing and will not do.

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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I think you actually get a kick out of being disappointed and under-achieving, because it's easier, isn't it? Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.

David Nicholls

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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

Quentin Crisp

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

Hopkins, Tom

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Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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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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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

Skinner, B(urrhus) F(rederic)

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The man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere.

Swinnerton, Frank

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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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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 you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win

Reuther, Walter

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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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.

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When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Kaufman, Herbert

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.

Baxter, Anne

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

Neuharth, Al

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Failure does not count. If you accept this, you'll be successful. What causes most people to fail is that after one failure, they'll stop trying.

Burford, Frank

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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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Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

Carl Jung

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

Hill, Napoleon

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