Motivational Quotes

Failure

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

- Ruth, Babe

Best Quotes about Failure

There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Hopkins, Tom

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

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

Sophocles

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

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

Mckinnon, Dan

Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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

Aoki, Rocky

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

Wooden, John

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

Lynch, Charles

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The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.

Picabia, Francis

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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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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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Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Proverb, German

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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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Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.

J.K. Rowling

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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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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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There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.

Baldwin, James

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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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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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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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An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

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

Quentin Crisp

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You must think of failure and defeat as the springboards to new achievements or to the next level of accomplishment.

Brown, Les

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Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

Givens, Charles J.

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A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.

Bloch, Arthur

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

Seneca

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

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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 you are doing your best, you will not have to worry about failure.

Hillyer, Robert S.

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

Heller, Joseph

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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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People don't fail, they give up

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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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People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

Lao-Tzu

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We learn from failure much more than from success; we often discover what we will do by finding our what we will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Smiles, Samuel

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Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results.

James, William

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

Viscott, David

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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.