Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Bristol, Claude M.

Best Quotes about Failure

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

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

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.

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

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

The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Hill, Napoleon

Failure is not the worst thing in the world -- the very worst is not to try

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

Givens, Charles J.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Chase, Ilka

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

Heller, Joseph

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Hopkins, Tom

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You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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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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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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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 an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.

Randy K. Milholland

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We are all failures -- at least, all the best of us are.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect, we will immediately feel overwhelmed.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.

Bill Lyon

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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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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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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.

Engstrom, Ted W.

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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

Hillyer, Robert S.

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You can always tell who the pioneers are because they have arrows in their back and are lying face down in the dirt.

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

Lynch, Charles

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Anyone seen on a bus after age thirty has been a failure in life.

Loelia, Duchess

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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There is no such thing as accidental failure. All failure is at least half imposed.

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

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal