Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Rohn, Jim

Best Quotes about Failure

Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

Wooden, John

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

Edward Albee

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.

Pitino, Rick

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

Eliot, George

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.

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

Seneca

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

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it's all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you're willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you're willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you've got the potential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.

Sugarman, Joseph

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Lynch, Charles

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If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win

Reuther, Walter

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Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory.

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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Eliot, George

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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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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free. Tom Robbins Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.

Barton, Bruce

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

Bill Lyon

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All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who live together through long years get to know one another's failings; but they also come to know what is worthy of respect and admiration in those they live with and in themselves. If at the end one can say, This man used to the limit the powers that God granted him; he was worthy of love and respect and of the sacrifices of many people, made in order that he might achieve what he deemed to be his task, then that life has been lived well and there are no regrets.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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Many men fail because they quit too soon. They lose faith when the signs are against them. They do not have the courage to hold on, to keep fighting in spite of that which seems insurmountable. If more of us would strike out and attempt the impossible, we very soon would find the truth of that old saying that nothing is impossible... abolish fear and you can accomplish anything you wish.

Welch, Dr. C. E.

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet.

Proverb, German

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

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

Picabia, Francis

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Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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

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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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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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

Quentin Crisp

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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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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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You win only if you aren't afraid to lose.

Aoki, Rocky

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

Sophocles

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

Miller, Henry

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On this path effort never goes to waste, and there is no failure. Even a little effort toward spiritual awareness will protect you from the greatest fear.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results.

James, William

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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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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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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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Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

Ziglar, Zig