Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Bristol, Claude M.

Best Quotes about 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

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

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.

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

Proverb, African

Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Proverb, German

Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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

Melville, Herman

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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.

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If you are doing your best, you will not have to worry about failure.

Hillyer, Robert S.

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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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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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded. You must never regret what might have been. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot see.

Stern, Richard Martin

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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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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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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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Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.

Viscott, David

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

Lynch, Charles

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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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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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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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.

Phillips, Wendell

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

Baxter, Anne

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Failures are divided into two classes -- those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

Salak, John Charles

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Rohn, Jim