Motivational Quotes

Failure

Some defeats are only installments to victory.

- Riis, Jacob

Best Quotes about Failure

Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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

Eliot, George

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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

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

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

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

Grayson, David

Failure is the path of least persistence

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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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If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

Seneca

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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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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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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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

Wooden, John

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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

Chase, Ilka

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No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back.

Proverb, Turkish

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There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no insurmountable barrier except our own inherent weakness of purpose.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.

Melville, Herman

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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

Tracy, Brian

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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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From time to time, life as a leader can look hopeless. To help you, consider a man who lived through this: Failed in business at age 31. Defeated for the legislature at 32. Again failed in business at 34. Sweetheart died at 35. Had a nervous breakdown at 36. Defeated in election at 38. Defeated for Congress at 43. Defeated for Congress at 46. Defeated for Congress at 48. Defeated for Senate at 55. Defeated for Vice President at 56. Defeated for Senate at 58. Elected President at age 60. This man was Abraham Lincoln.

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times,and what happens when he says, I am a failure.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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

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When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Quentin Crisp

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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

Loelia, Duchess

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Aoki, Rocky

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

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The moment avoiding failure becomes your motivation, you're down the path of inactivity. You stumble only if you're moving.

Goizueta, Roberto