Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Lynch, Charles

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Chase, Ilka

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.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.

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

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

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

Picabia, Francis

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Sophocles

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

Quentin Crisp

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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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Every person who has become successful has simply formed the habit of doing things that failures dislike doing and will not do.

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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

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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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If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded. You must never regret what might have been. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot see.

Stern, Richard Martin

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Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.

John Keats

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

Confucius

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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

Viscott, David

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People don't fail, they give up

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Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than I was and began diverting all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

J.K. Rowling

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

Cole, Edwin Louis

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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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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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

Edward Albee

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If all this happened to you what paradigm might you develop? How might that paradigm affect you in terms of your life from that point on? What does this tell you about Abe? There are no failures, only lessons to be learned.

Winfrey, Oprah

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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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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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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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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

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

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Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

Carl Jung

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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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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu