Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Bristol, Claude M.

Best Quotes about Failure

My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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

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

Hopkins, Tom

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

Porsche, Dr.

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

Viscott, David

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

Schuller, Robert H.

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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

Lynch, Charles

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.

Bloch, Arthur

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Even a tombstone says good things about a fellow who's down.

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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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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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You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.

Williams, A.L.

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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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, 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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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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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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People don't fail, they give up

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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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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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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

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

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Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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

Phillips, Wendell

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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 does not count. If you accept this, you'll be successful. What causes most people to fail is that after one failure, they'll stop trying.

Burford, Frank

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It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not lived at all. In which case, you've failed by default.

J.K. Rowling

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

Proverb, African

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

Pitino, Rick

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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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The only people who never fail are those who never try.

Chase, Ilka

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Rohn, Jim

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory.

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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