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

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

Cole, Edwin Louis

Misfortunes one can endure -- they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults -- Ah! there is the sting of life.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Melville, Herman

Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

Eliot, George

Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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

Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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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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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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Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

Carver, George Washington

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

Neuharth, Al

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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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

Seneca

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I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Sophocles

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.

Porsche, Dr.

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There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

Hoffer, Eric

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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

Waitley, Denis

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Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.

Robbins, Anthony

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

Wooden, John

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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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Every person who has become successful has simply formed the habit of doing things that failures dislike doing and will not do.

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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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I have not failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that won't work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Proverb, German

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

Korda, Michael

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

Quentin Crisp

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Carl Jung

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

Rohn, Jim

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.

Miller, Arthur

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