Motivational Quotes

Failure

There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

- Keats, John

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Clarke, J. Richard

I have always felt that although someone may defeat me, and I strike out in a ball game, the pitcher on the particular day was the best player. But I know when I see him again, I'm going to be ready for his curve ball. Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.

Aaron, Hank

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

Robbins, Anthony

Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.

Hubbard, Elbert

Past failures are guideposts to success.

In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.

Robertson, Frederick W.

A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

Confucius

The typical human life seems to be quite unplanned, undirected, unlived, and unsavored. Only those who consciously think about the adventure of living as a matter of making choices among options, which they have found for themselves, ever establish real self-control and live their lives fully.

Albrecht, Karl

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

Givens, Charles J.

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

Pitino, Rick

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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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No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back.

Proverb, Turkish

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Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.

Dahlberg, Edward

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

Keats, John

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

Cole, Edwin Louis

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

Proverb, African

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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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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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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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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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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Failures are divided into two classes -- those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

Salak, John Charles

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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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Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

Wooden, John

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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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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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Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Bill Lyon

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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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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

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Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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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