Motivational Quotes

Failure

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.

Best Quotes about Failure

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.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

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

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

Miller, Henry

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

Eliot, George

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

Grayson, David

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Wooden, John

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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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Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

Waitley, Denis

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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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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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

Aoki, Rocky

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There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

Hoffer, Eric

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back.

Proverb, Turkish

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I think you actually get a kick out of being disappointed and under-achieving, because it's easier, isn't it? Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.

David Nicholls

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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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The man who tries to do something and fails is infinitely better than he who tries to do nothing and succeeds.

Jones, Lloyd

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There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.

Robbins, Anthony

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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 hard fall means a high bounce... if you're made of the right material.

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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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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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

Viscott, David

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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You can fail so very often. But you are not a failure until you give up.

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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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The moment avoiding failure becomes your motivation, you're down the path of inactivity. You stumble only if you're moving.

Goizueta, Roberto

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

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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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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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry