Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.

Pitino, Rick

He's no failure. He's not dead yet.

George, William Lloyd

We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.

Randy K. Milholland

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

Seneca

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

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

Quentin Crisp

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

Korda, Michael

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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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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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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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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

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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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I am often confronted by the necessity of standing by one of my empirical selves and relinquishing the rest. Not that I would not. If I could, be... a great athlete and make a million a year, be a wit, a born -- vivant and a lady killer,as well as a philosopher, a philanthropist ... and saint. But the thing is simply impossible. The millionaire's work would run counter to the saint s; the bon-vivant and the philanthropist would trip each other up; the philosopher and the lady killer could not well keep house in the same tenement of clay. Such different characters may conceivably, at the outset of life. Be alike possible for a man. But to make any one of them actual,the rest must more of less be suppressed. So the seeker of his truest, strongest, deepest self must review the list carefully and pick out on which to stake his salvation. All other selves thereupon become unreal, but the fortunes of this self are real. Its failure are real failures, its triumphs real triumphs carrying shame and gladness with them.

James, William

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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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When you stand at the edge of the cliff, jump to fly, not to fall.

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Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

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

Aoki, Rocky

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

Hopkins, Tom

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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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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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

Wooden, John

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

Chase, Ilka

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

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Failure does not count. If you accept this, you'll be successful. What causes most people to fail is that after one failure, they'll stop trying.

Burford, Frank

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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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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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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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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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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Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

Carl Jung

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart