Motivational Quotes

Failure

We learn from failure much more than from success; we often discover what we will do by finding our what we will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

- Smiles, Samuel

Best Quotes about Failure

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

You can fail so very often. But you are not a failure until you give up.

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

Porsche, Dr.

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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

George, William Lloyd

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I have not failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that won't work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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

Brown, Les

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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The moment avoiding failure becomes your motivation, you're down the path of inactivity. You stumble only if you're moving.

Goizueta, Roberto

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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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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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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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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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Failure is the path of least persistence

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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

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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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In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.

Robertson, Frederick W.

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Just because you've lost doesn't necessarily mean you've failed.

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People don't fail, they give up

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

Aoki, Rocky

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I think you actually get a kick out of being disappointed and under-achieving, because it's easier, isn't it? Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.

David Nicholls

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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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You can't be a winner and be afraid to lose.

Lynch, Charles

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The typical human life seems to be quite unplanned, undirected, unlived, and unsavored. Only those who consciously think about the adventure of living as a matter of making choices among options, which they have found for themselves, ever establish real self-control and live their lives fully.

Albrecht, Karl

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

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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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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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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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

James, William

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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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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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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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.