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

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

Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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

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

South, Bishop Robert

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)

I cannot give the formula for success, but I can give you the formula of failure -- which is try to please everybody.

Swope, Herbert B.

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

Wooden, John

Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed -- I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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The moment avoiding failure becomes your motivation, you're down the path of inactivity. You stumble only if you're moving.

Goizueta, Roberto

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A hard fall means a high bounce... if you're made of the right material.

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

Neuharth, Al

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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 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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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Waitley, Denis

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

Baxter, Anne

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

Keats, John

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

Melville, Herman

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Lynch, Charles

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Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results.

James, William

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Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

Ziglar, Zig

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Silicon Valley is a graveyard. Failure is Silicon Valley's greatest strength.