Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

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

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

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

Grayson, David

Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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

Neuharth, Al

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet.

Proverb, German

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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.

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

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

Lynch, Charles

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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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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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Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Tracy, Brian

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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

Hopkins, Tom

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

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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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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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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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Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

Samuel McChord Crothers

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

Bill Lyon

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

Rohn, Jim

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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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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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It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.

Stein, Ben

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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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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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I am often confronted by the necessity of standing by one of my empirical selves and relinquishing the rest. Not that I would not. If I could, be... a great athlete and make a million a year, be a wit, a born -- vivant and a lady killer,as well as a philosopher, a philanthropist ... and saint. But the thing is simply impossible. The millionaire's work would run counter to the saint s; the bon-vivant and the philanthropist would trip each other up; the philosopher and the lady killer could not well keep house in the same tenement of clay. Such different characters may conceivably, at the outset of life. Be alike possible for a man. But to make any one of them actual,the rest must more of less be suppressed. So the seeker of his truest, strongest, deepest self must review the list carefully and pick out on which to stake his salvation. All other selves thereupon become unreal, but the fortunes of this self are real. Its failure are real failures, its triumphs real triumphs carrying shame and gladness with them.

James, William

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

Pitino, Rick

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We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Viscott, David

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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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No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.