Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Heller, Joseph

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Robbins, Anthony

If all this happened to you what paradigm might you develop? How might that paradigm affect you in terms of your life from that point on? What does this tell you about Abe? There are no failures, only lessons to be learned.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

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.

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

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

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On this path effort never goes to waste, and there is no failure. Even a little effort toward spiritual awareness will protect you from the greatest fear.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

Sophocles

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

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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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Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

Carver, George Washington

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Accept failure as a normal part of living. View it as part of the process of exploring your world; make a note of its lessons and move on.

Hobson, Tom

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We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.

Merton, Thomas

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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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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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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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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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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 are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.

Porsche, Dr.

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When you stand at the edge of the cliff, jump to fly, not to fall.

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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, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results.

James, William

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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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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 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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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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

Confucius

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Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus.

South, Bishop Robert

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

Keats, John

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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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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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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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No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Quentin Crisp

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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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There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the determined endeavor; the unconquerable will. There is no failure for the man who gets up every time he falls, who rebounds like a rubber ball, who persists when everyone else gives up, who pushes on when everyone else turns back.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Aoki, Rocky