Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Bristol, Claude M.

Failure is the path of least persistence

If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.

Bartkowski, Steve

You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

Disney, Walt

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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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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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Proverb, Turkish

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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Even a tombstone says good things about a fellow who's down.

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It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.

Stein, Ben

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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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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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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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You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

Cole, Edwin Louis

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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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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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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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We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.

Engstrom, Ted W.

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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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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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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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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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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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He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

Heller, Joseph

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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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The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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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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The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

Proverb, Chinese

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If you're willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.

Edward Albee

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.

Merton, Thomas

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People don't fail, they give up

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Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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

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

Eliot, George

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick