Motivational Quotes

Failure

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

- Kaufman, Herbert

Best Quotes about Failure

Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

Korda, Michael

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

Robbins, Anthony

To win you've got to stay in the game.

Bristol, Claude M.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.

Phillips, Wendell

You can always tell who the pioneers are because they have arrows in their back and are lying face down in the dirt.

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.

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

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

Schuller, Robert H.

11.

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

Proverb, German

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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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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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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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The man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere.

Swinnerton, Frank

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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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Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Waitley, Denis

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

Neuharth, Al

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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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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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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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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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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

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We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free. Tom Robbins Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.

Barton, Bruce

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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

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who live together through long years get to know one another's failings; but they also come to know what is worthy of respect and admiration in those they live with and in themselves. If at the end one can say, This man used to the limit the powers that God granted him; he was worthy of love and respect and of the sacrifices of many people, made in order that he might achieve what he deemed to be his task, then that life has been lived well and there are no regrets.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

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I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.

Baxter, Anne

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

Loelia, Duchess

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The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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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

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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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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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The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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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

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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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In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.

Robertson, Frederick W.

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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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Remember that your failures are the seeds of your most glorious successes. Be sad if you must, but don't despair.

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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