Motivational Quotes

Failure

If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.

- Bill Lyon

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Lynch, Charles

The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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

Cole, Edwin Louis

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

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

Kaufman, Herbert

Just because you've lost doesn't necessarily mean you've failed.

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.

Failure is the path of least persistence

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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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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If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win

Reuther, Walter

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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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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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 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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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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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Quentin Crisp

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

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If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect, we will immediately feel overwhelmed.

Robbins, Anthony

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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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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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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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.

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You win only if you aren't afraid to lose.

Aoki, Rocky

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We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.

Grayson, David

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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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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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Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.

J.K. Rowling

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The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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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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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

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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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Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

Winfrey, Oprah

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.

Baxter, Anne

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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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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If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

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There is no such thing as accidental failure. All failure is at least half imposed.