Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Stevenson, Robert Louis

Best Quotes about Failure

A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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

Tracy, Brian

He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.

Miller, Arthur

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.

If you're willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.

Edward Albee

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

Eliot, George

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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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Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.

Dahlberg, Edward

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If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

Seneca

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed -- I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.

Clemenceau, Georges

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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

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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

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

Picabia, Francis

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

Wooden, John

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I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

Sophocles

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Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

Carl Jung

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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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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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.

Merton, Thomas

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

Proverb, German

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Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than I was and began diverting all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

J.K. Rowling

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Failure does not count. If you accept this, you'll be successful. What causes most people to fail is that after one failure, they'll stop trying.

Burford, Frank

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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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I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win.

Hopkins, Tom

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