Motivational Quotes

Failure

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

- Schuller, Robert H.

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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

Picabia, Francis

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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.

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

Edward Albee

Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

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

Hopkins, Tom

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I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

Edison, Thomas A.

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.

Keats, John

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Those who have failed miserably are often the first to see God's formula for success.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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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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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The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.

Miller, Henry

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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When someone is going downhill everyone likes to give them a kick.

Proverb

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

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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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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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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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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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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.

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

George, William Lloyd

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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

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Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

Walt Whitman

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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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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.

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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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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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A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

Confucius

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

Proverb, German

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

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You cannot explain failure any more than you can argue with success.

Clarke, J. Richard

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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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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 doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Schuller, Robert H.