Motivational Quotes

Failure

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

- Ruth, Babe

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Many men fail because they quit too soon. They lose faith when the signs are against them. They do not have the courage to hold on, to keep fighting in spite of that which seems insurmountable. If more of us would strike out and attempt the impossible, we very soon would find the truth of that old saying that nothing is impossible... abolish fear and you can accomplish anything you wish.

Welch, Dr. C. E.

You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.

Williams, A.L.

A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

The man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere.

Swinnerton, Frank

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

Phillips, Wendell

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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

Sophocles

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Heller, Joseph

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

Proverb, German

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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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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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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Picabia, Francis

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

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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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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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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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You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.

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I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.

Baxter, Anne

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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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If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded. You must never regret what might have been. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot see.

Stern, Richard Martin

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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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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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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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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.

Porsche, Dr.

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

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

Melville, Herman

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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

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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

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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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If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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The man who tries to do something and fails is infinitely better than he who tries to do nothing and succeeds.

Jones, Lloyd

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

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There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the determined endeavor; the unconquerable will. There is no failure for the man who gets up every time he falls, who rebounds like a rubber ball, who persists when everyone else gives up, who pushes on when everyone else turns back.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Pitino, Rick

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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