Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Hopkins, Tom

Best Quotes about Failure

A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

Skinner, B(urrhus) F(rederic)

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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.

You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.

Williams, A.L.

Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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

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

Quentin Crisp

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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Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.

Mckinnon, Dan

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

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

Porsche, Dr.

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

Proverb

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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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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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Proverb, African

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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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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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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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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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Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

Givens, Charles J.

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

Proverb, German

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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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I have not failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that won't work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

Wooden, John

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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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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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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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

Eliot, George

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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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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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If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect, we will immediately feel overwhelmed.

Robbins, Anthony

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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 an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

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