Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Bristol, Claude M.

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Chase, Ilka

When you stand at the edge of the cliff, jump to fly, not to fall.

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

South, Bishop Robert

The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.

Miller, Henry

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.

Grayson, David

10.

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

Sophocles

11.

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

Phillips, Wendell

12.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

14.

Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

15.

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Viscott, David

18.

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

Hopkins, Tom

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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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Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Your failures won't hurt you until you start blaming them on others.

24.

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.

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The typical human life seems to be quite unplanned, undirected, unlived, and unsavored. Only those who consciously think about the adventure of living as a matter of making choices among options, which they have found for themselves, ever establish real self-control and live their lives fully.

Albrecht, Karl

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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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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

28.

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

Quentin Crisp

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The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.

Picabia, Francis

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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

31.

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

32.

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

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You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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If you've never failed you've never tried.

37.

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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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.

39.

If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win

Reuther, Walter

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

41.

However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

43.

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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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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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

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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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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William