Motivational Quotes

Failure

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)

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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.

In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try.

Viscott, David

Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not lived at all. In which case, you've failed by default.

J.K. Rowling

If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect, we will immediately feel overwhelmed.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Brown, Les

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

Bill Lyon

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

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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

Hill, Napoleon

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When someone is going downhill everyone likes to give them a kick.

Proverb

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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 matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back.

Proverb, Turkish

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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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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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Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet.

Proverb, German

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There is no such thing as accidental failure. All failure is at least half imposed.

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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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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

Quentin Crisp

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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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Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.

Robbins, Anthony

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

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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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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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

Proverb, Chinese

33.

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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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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There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.

Baldwin, James

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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

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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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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.