Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Jones, Lloyd

Best Quotes about Failure

The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall.

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

Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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

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

Edward Albee

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

Remember that your failures are the seeds of your most glorious successes. Be sad if you must, but don't despair.

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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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 not the worst thing in the world -- the very worst is not to try

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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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Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results.

James, William

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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 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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They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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Silicon Valley is a graveyard. Failure is Silicon Valley's greatest strength.

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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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I have not failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that won't work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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

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

Quentin Crisp

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If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.

Bartkowski, Steve

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.

Stein, Ben

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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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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

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Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Waitley, Denis

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

Porsche, Dr.

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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.

Proverb, African

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

Melville, Herman

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It takes a lot more energy to fail than to succeed, since it takes a lot of concentrated energy to hold on to beliefs that don't work.

Gillies, Jerry

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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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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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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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If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.

Bill Lyon

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Hoffer, Eric

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You win only if you aren't afraid to lose.