Motivational Quotes

Failure

Everyone pushes a falling fence.

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Rohn, Jim

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.

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

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

Robbins, Anthony

I have not failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that won't work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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

If you are doing your best, you will not have to worry about failure.

Hillyer, Robert S.

10.

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

11.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Quentin Crisp

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If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

15.

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

Edward Albee

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

17.

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

Bill Lyon

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There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.

Baldwin, James

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

21.

Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

22.

Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

23.

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

Keats, John

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The moment avoiding failure becomes your motivation, you're down the path of inactivity. You stumble only if you're moving.

Goizueta, Roberto

25.

Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

26.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

28.

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

Jones, Lloyd

29.

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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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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Anyone seen on a bus after age thirty has been a failure in life.

Loelia, Duchess

32.

If you've never failed you've never tried.

33.

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 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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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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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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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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Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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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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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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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

Skinner, B(urrhus) F(rederic)

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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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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

Proverb