Motivational Quotes

Failure

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

- Ruth, Babe

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Bristol, Claude M.

All honor to him who shall win the prize. The world has cried for a thousand years. But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears.

Miller, Joaquin

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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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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The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall.

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

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

Miller, Henry

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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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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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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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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If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.

Bartkowski, Steve

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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

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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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There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no insurmountable barrier except our own inherent weakness of purpose.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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You can always tell who the pioneers are because they have arrows in their back and are lying face down in the dirt.

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I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.

Baxter, Anne

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

Wooden, John

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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

Givens, Charles J.

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

Proverb, Turkish

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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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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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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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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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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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Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

Korda, Michael

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We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

Kettering, Charles F.

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Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

Carver, George Washington

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

Hopkins, Tom

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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.