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

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.

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

Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than I was and began diverting all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

J.K. Rowling

Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Schuller, Robert H.

Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Eliot, George

11.

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

Quentin Crisp

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

Keats, John

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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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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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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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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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You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.

Proverb, African

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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

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

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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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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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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 will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.

Bloch, Arthur

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.

Randy K. Milholland

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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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Past failures are guideposts to success.

41.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Anyone seen on a bus after age thirty has been a failure in life.

Loelia, Duchess

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

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They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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

George, William Lloyd

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

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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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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De