Motivational Quotes

Failure

Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.

- Keats, John

Best Quotes about Failure

Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.

Keats, John

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.

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

You can fail so very often. But you are not a failure until you give up.

Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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.

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

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

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Pitino, Rick

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

Hopkins, Tom

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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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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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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

Proverb, German

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

George, William Lloyd

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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

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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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Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

Nixon, Richard M.

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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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

Viscott, David

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

Neuharth, Al

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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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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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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Misfortunes one can endure -- they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults -- Ah! there is the sting of life.

Wilde, Oscar

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Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

Waitley, Denis

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If you are doing your best, you will not have to worry about failure.

Hillyer, Robert S.

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

Lynch, Charles

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

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, 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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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

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

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick