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

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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.

My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.

Mckinnon, Dan

In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try.

Viscott, David

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

Kaufman, Herbert

We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.

Randy K. Milholland

The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure all your life.

Gardner, John W.

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

Picabia, Francis

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

Tracy, Brian

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

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

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

James, William

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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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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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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 look where you fell, but where you slipped.

Proverb, African

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

George, William Lloyd

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We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

Kettering, Charles F.

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We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free. Tom Robbins Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.

Barton, Bruce

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Those who have failed miserably are often the first to see God's formula for success.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Loelia, Duchess

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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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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

Proverb, German

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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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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We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.

Merton, Thomas

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

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

Baxter, Anne

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You cannot explain failure any more than you can argue with success.

Clarke, J. Richard

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

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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.

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Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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

Chase, Ilka