Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Pitino, Rick

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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

James, William

The man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere.

Swinnerton, Frank

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

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

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

Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.

Strindberg, J. August

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

South, Bishop Robert

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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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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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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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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

Cole, Edwin Louis

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

George, William Lloyd

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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

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

Lynch, Charles

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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

Hill, Napoleon

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No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.

Marcus, Greil

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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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Many men fail because they quit too soon. They lose faith when the signs are against them. They do not have the courage to hold on, to keep fighting in spite of that which seems insurmountable. If more of us would strike out and attempt the impossible, we very soon would find the truth of that old saying that nothing is impossible... abolish fear and you can accomplish anything you wish.

Welch, Dr. C. E.

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Viscott, David

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People don't fail, they give up

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Hillyer, Robert S.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.

Mckinnon, Dan

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When you stand at the edge of the cliff, jump to fly, not to fall.

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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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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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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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.