Motivational Quotes

Failure

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.

Best Quotes about Failure

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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

South, Bishop Robert

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

My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

Disney, Walt

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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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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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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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've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Miller, Henry

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There is no such thing as accidental failure. All failure is at least half imposed.

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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

Picabia, Francis

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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

Neuharth, Al

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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.

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

Chase, Ilka

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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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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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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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A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed -- I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Hopkins, Tom

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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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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Peterson, Wilferd A.

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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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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The man who tries to do something and fails is infinitely better than he who tries to do nothing and succeeds.

Jones, Lloyd

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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Seneca

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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.