Motivational Quotes

Failure

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

- Ruth, Babe

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Goizueta, Roberto

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

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

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

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

Picabia, Francis

You must think of failure and defeat as the springboards to new achievements or to the next level of accomplishment.

Brown, Les

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

Loelia, Duchess

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

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I am often confronted by the necessity of standing by one of my empirical selves and relinquishing the rest. Not that I would not. If I could, be... a great athlete and make a million a year, be a wit, a born -- vivant and a lady killer,as well as a philosopher, a philanthropist ... and saint. But the thing is simply impossible. The millionaire's work would run counter to the saint s; the bon-vivant and the philanthropist would trip each other up; the philosopher and the lady killer could not well keep house in the same tenement of clay. Such different characters may conceivably, at the outset of life. Be alike possible for a man. But to make any one of them actual,the rest must more of less be suppressed. So the seeker of his truest, strongest, deepest self must review the list carefully and pick out on which to stake his salvation. All other selves thereupon become unreal, but the fortunes of this self are real. Its failure are real failures, its triumphs real triumphs carrying shame and gladness with them.

James, William

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

Seneca

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.

John Keats

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

Aoki, Rocky

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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

Hillyer, Robert S.

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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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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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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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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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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

Edward Albee

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They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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

George, William Lloyd

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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Failures are divided into two classes -- those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

Salak, John Charles

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

Sophocles

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

Rohn, Jim

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The man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere.

Swinnerton, Frank

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

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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