Motivational Quotes

Failure

You can't be a winner and be afraid to lose.

- Lynch, Charles

Best Quotes about Failure

You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to fall down flatBut to lie there-that's a disgrace.

Cooke, E. V.

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

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

Grayson, David

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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

The only people who never fail are those who never try.

Chase, Ilka

Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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

Keats, John

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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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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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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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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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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The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall.

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

Sophocles

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The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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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)

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory.

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

Neuharth, Al

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

Aoki, Rocky

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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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Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Proverb, African

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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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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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.

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In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try.

Viscott, David

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

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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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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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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

Winfrey, Oprah

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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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Misfortunes one can endure -- they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults -- Ah! there is the sting of life.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Quentin Crisp

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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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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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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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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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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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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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You cannot explain failure any more than you can argue with success.

Clarke, J. Richard

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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