Motivational Quotes

Failure

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

- Ruth, Babe

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Accept failure as a normal part of living. View it as part of the process of exploring your world; make a note of its lessons and move on.

Hobson, Tom

There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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

Picabia, Francis

Silicon Valley is a graveyard. Failure is Silicon Valley's greatest strength.

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

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

Reuther, Walter

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

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

South, Bishop Robert

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

George, William Lloyd

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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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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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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

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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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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If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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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

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Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.

Keats, John

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

Proverb, Turkish

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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

Cole, Edwin Louis

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Sophocles

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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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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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

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

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.

Viscott, David

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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.

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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

Bill Lyon

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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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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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A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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We are all failures -- at least, all the best of us are.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Seneca

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

Carl Jung

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