Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Baxter, Anne

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

Sophocles

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

It is for want of application, rather than of means that people fail,

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall.

Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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 failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

Skinner, B(urrhus) F(rederic)

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

Neuharth, Al

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On this path effort never goes to waste, and there is no failure. Even a little effort toward spiritual awareness will protect you from the greatest fear.

Bhagavad Gita

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

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

Loelia, Duchess

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

Seneca

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

Melville, Herman

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People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

Lao-Tzu

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

Hopkins, Tom

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Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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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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You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

Disney, Walt

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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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I think you actually get a kick out of being disappointed and under-achieving, because it's easier, isn't it? Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.

David Nicholls

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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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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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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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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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The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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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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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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From time to time, life as a leader can look hopeless. To help you, consider a man who lived through this: Failed in business at age 31. Defeated for the legislature at 32. Again failed in business at 34. Sweetheart died at 35. Had a nervous breakdown at 36. Defeated in election at 38. Defeated for Congress at 43. Defeated for Congress at 46. Defeated for Congress at 48. Defeated for Senate at 55. Defeated for Vice President at 56. Defeated for Senate at 58. Elected President at age 60. This man was Abraham Lincoln.

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

Lynch, Charles

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A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

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In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.

Robertson, Frederick W.