Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Hillyer, Robert S.

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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

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

Proverb, Turkish

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.

Just because you've lost doesn't necessarily mean you've failed.

If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed -- I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.

Clemenceau, Georges

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A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

Confucius

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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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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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Failure does not count. If you accept this, you'll be successful. What causes most people to fail is that after one failure, they'll stop trying.

Burford, Frank

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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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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.

Dahlberg, Edward

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There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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

Grayson, David

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It is for want of application, rather than of means that people fail,

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.

Viscott, David

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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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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He's no failure. He's not dead yet.

George, William Lloyd

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

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

Aoki, Rocky

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We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure all your life.

Gardner, John W.

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

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

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All honor to him who shall win the prize. The world has cried for a thousand years. But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears.

Miller, Joaquin

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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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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If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

Seneca

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Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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From time to time, life as a leader can look hopeless. To help you, consider a man who lived through this: Failed in business at age 31. Defeated for the legislature at 32. Again failed in business at 34. Sweetheart died at 35. Had a nervous breakdown at 36. Defeated in election at 38. Defeated for Congress at 43. Defeated for Congress at 46. Defeated for Congress at 48. Defeated for Senate at 55. Defeated for Vice President at 56. Defeated for Senate at 58. Elected President at age 60. This man was Abraham Lincoln.

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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When someone is going downhill everyone likes to give them a kick.

Proverb