Motivational Quotes

Failure

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

- Ruth, Babe

Best Quotes about Failure

My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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

Pitino, Rick

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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

It is for want of application, rather than of means that people fail,

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Korda, Michael

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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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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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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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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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

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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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It takes a lot more energy to fail than to succeed, since it takes a lot of concentrated energy to hold on to beliefs that don't work.

Gillies, Jerry

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Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty.

Neuharth, Al

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

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.

Grayson, David

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Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

Nixon, Richard 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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If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.

Porsche, Dr.

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

Loelia, Duchess

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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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Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Kaufman, Herbert

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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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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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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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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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Failure is the path of least persistence

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

Bill Lyon

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Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

Winfrey, Oprah

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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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Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.