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

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

I cannot give the formula for success, but I can give you the formula of failure -- which is try to please everybody.

Swope, Herbert B.

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

Viscott, David

Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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.

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

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

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

Jones, Lloyd

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

Bloch, Arthur

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

Hopkins, Tom

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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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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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I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

Sophocles

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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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When you stand at the edge of the cliff, jump to fly, not to fall.

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Chase, Ilka

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

Lynch, Charles

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

Heller, Joseph

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Picabia, Francis

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From time to time, life as a leader can look hopeless. To help you, consider a man who lived through this: Failed in business at age 31. Defeated for the legislature at 32. Again failed in business at 34. Sweetheart died at 35. Had a nervous breakdown at 36. Defeated in election at 38. Defeated for Congress at 43. Defeated for Congress at 46. Defeated for Congress at 48. Defeated for Senate at 55. Defeated for Vice President at 56. Defeated for Senate at 58. Elected President at age 60. This man was Abraham Lincoln.

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

South, Bishop Robert

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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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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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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

George, William Lloyd

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There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no insurmountable barrier except our own inherent weakness of purpose.

Hubbard, Elbert

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If you're willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.

Edward Albee

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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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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Your failures won't hurt you until you start blaming them on others.

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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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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All honor to him who shall win the prize. The world has cried for a thousand years. But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears.

Miller, Joaquin

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law