Motivational Quotes

Failure

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

- Schuller, Robert H.

Best Quotes about Failure

Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

Confucius

You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.

Williams, A.L.

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

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

Picabia, Francis

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

Ziglar, Zig

Every person who has become successful has simply formed the habit of doing things that failures dislike doing and will not do.

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

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

Proverb, Turkish

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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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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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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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There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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

Rohn, Jim

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It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.

Stein, Ben

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

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Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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

Eliot, George

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

Grayson, David

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He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

Heller, Joseph

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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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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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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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

Reuther, Walter

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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If you are bitten by a snake, what's the best thing to do? Remain calm, separate the poison from the rest of your body, suck the poison out. Worst thing to do: get upset, chase and kill snake. Same when someone strikes out at you verbally. Remain calm, don't try to strike back at the other person. Don't let the poison spread throughout your system.

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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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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Misfortunes one can endure -- they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults -- Ah! there is the sting of life.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Aoki, Rocky

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony