Motivational Quotes

Failure

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.

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Hillyer, Robert S.

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

Bristol, Claude M.

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

Patton, George S.

You must think of failure and defeat as the springboards to new achievements or to the next level of accomplishment.

Brown, Les

Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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

Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty.

Neuharth, Al

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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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A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it's all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you're willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you're willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you've got the potential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.

Sugarman, Joseph

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

Eliot, George

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No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.

Marcus, Greil

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

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

Grayson, David

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

Bill Lyon

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

Aoki, Rocky

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You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

Cole, Edwin Louis

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no insurmountable barrier except our own inherent weakness of purpose.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Quentin Crisp

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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.

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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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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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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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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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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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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It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.

Baxter, Anne

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

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

Reuther, Walter