Motivational Quotes

Failure

Losing is a part of winning.

- Munro, Dick

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Chase, Ilka

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

Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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.

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

Proverb, Turkish

Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.

Engstrom, Ted W.

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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 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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Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

Fitzgerald, Ella

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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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If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

Seneca

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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Those who have failed miserably are often the first to see God's formula for success.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

Lao-Tzu

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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

Lynch, Charles

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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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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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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 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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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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I cannot give the formula for success, but I can give you the formula of failure -- which is try to please everybody.

Swope, Herbert B.

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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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We are all failures -- at least, all the best of us are.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Phillips, Wendell

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Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

Samuel McChord Crothers

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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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When someone is going downhill everyone likes to give them a kick.

Proverb

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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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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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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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It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.

Baxter, Anne

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

George, William Lloyd

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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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