Motivational Quotes

Failure

Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

- Alacia Bessette

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.

Bloch, Arthur

Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

Waitley, Denis

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

Cole, Edwin Louis

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Carl Jung

There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the determined endeavor; the unconquerable will. There is no failure for the man who gets up every time he falls, who rebounds like a rubber ball, who persists when everyone else gives up, who pushes on when everyone else turns back.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.

Keats, John

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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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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Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Kaufman, Herbert

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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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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The man who tries to do something and fails is infinitely better than he who tries to do nothing and succeeds.

Jones, Lloyd

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

Edward Albee

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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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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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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

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Loelia, Duchess

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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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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

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Baxter, Anne

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.