Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Bovee, Christian Nevell

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

Heller, Joseph

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

Porsche, Dr.

Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.

Pitino, Rick

When someone is going downhill everyone likes to give them a kick.

Proverb

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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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.

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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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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.

Bartkowski, Steve

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

Proverb, African

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In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try.

Viscott, David

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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

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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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He's no failure. He's not dead yet.

George, William Lloyd

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The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

Proverb, Chinese

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The wise man realistically accepts as part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them. He lives on the principle of nothing attempted, nothing gained and is resolved that if he fails he is going to fail while trying to succeed.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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

Wooden, John

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

Fitzgerald, Ella

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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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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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A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

Confucius

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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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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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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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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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

Aoki, Rocky

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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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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

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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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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You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to fall down flatBut to lie there-that's a disgrace.

Cooke, E. V.

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

Melville, Herman

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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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

Edward Albee

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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Accept failure as a normal part of living. View it as part of the process of exploring your world; make a note of its lessons and move on.

Hobson, Tom