Motivational Quotes

Failure

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.

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Goizueta, Roberto

If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.

Schuller, Robert H.

People don't fail, they give up

If you are doing your best, you will not have to worry about failure.

Hillyer, Robert S.

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

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

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

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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.

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

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We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.

Randy K. Milholland

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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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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

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

Quentin Crisp

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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.

Melville, Herman

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

Confucius

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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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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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

Proverb, Turkish

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If all this happened to you what paradigm might you develop? How might that paradigm affect you in terms of your life from that point on? What does this tell you about Abe? There are no failures, only lessons to be learned.

Winfrey, Oprah

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Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus.

South, Bishop Robert

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Loelia, Duchess

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

Proverb, German

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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

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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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Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty.

Neuharth, Al

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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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Silicon Valley is a graveyard. Failure is Silicon Valley's greatest strength.

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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

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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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The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.

Miller, Henry

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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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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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All honor to him who shall win the prize. The world has cried for a thousand years. But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears.

Miller, Joaquin

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

Kettering, Charles F.

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