Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Brown, Les

There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no insurmountable barrier except our own inherent weakness of purpose.

Hubbard, Elbert

Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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

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

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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

Loelia, Duchess

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

Rohn, Jim

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Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

Carver, George Washington

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The only people who never fail are those who never try.

Chase, Ilka

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No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

Wooden, John

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The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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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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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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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.

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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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You cannot explain failure any more than you can argue with success.

Clarke, J. Richard

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It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Tracy, Brian

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I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.

Baxter, Anne

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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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What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.

Phillips, Wendell

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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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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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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

Pitino, Rick

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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I am often confronted by the necessity of standing by one of my empirical selves and relinquishing the rest. Not that I would not. If I could, be... a great athlete and make a million a year, be a wit, a born -- vivant and a lady killer,as well as a philosopher, a philanthropist ... and saint. But the thing is simply impossible. The millionaire's work would run counter to the saint s; the bon-vivant and the philanthropist would trip each other up; the philosopher and the lady killer could not well keep house in the same tenement of clay. Such different characters may conceivably, at the outset of life. Be alike possible for a man. But to make any one of them actual,the rest must more of less be suppressed. So the seeker of his truest, strongest, deepest self must review the list carefully and pick out on which to stake his salvation. All other selves thereupon become unreal, but the fortunes of this self are real. Its failure are real failures, its triumphs real triumphs carrying shame and gladness with them.

James, William

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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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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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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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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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

Keats, John