Motivational Quotes

Failure

A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

- Skinner, B(urrhus) F(rederic)

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Hopkins, Tom

If you've never failed you've never tried.

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

James, William

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

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.

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

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

Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect, we will immediately feel overwhelmed.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Seneca

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

Wooden, John

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Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus.

South, Bishop Robert

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He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.

Miller, Arthur

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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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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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

Pitino, Rick

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Proverb

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

Bloch, Arthur

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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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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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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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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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You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to fall down flatBut to lie there-that's a disgrace.

Cooke, E. V.

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Failure is not the worst thing in the world -- the very worst is not to try

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The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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