Motivational Quotes

Failure

The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.

- Miller, Henry

Best Quotes about Failure

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

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

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Hill, Napoleon

An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

Even a tombstone says good things about a fellow who's down.

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

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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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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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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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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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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To win you've got to stay in the game.

Bristol, Claude M.

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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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.

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

South, Bishop Robert

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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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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We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure all your life.

Gardner, John W.

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

Keats, John

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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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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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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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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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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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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.

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What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.

Phillips, Wendell

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There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the determined endeavor; the unconquerable will. There is no failure for the man who gets up every time he falls, who rebounds like a rubber ball, who persists when everyone else gives up, who pushes on when everyone else turns back.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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 fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.

Grayson, David

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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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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.