Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

The moment avoiding failure becomes your motivation, you're down the path of inactivity. You stumble only if you're moving.

Goizueta, Roberto

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

Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory.

Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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.

You can always tell who the pioneers are because they have arrows in their back and are lying face down in the dirt.

Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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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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The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Tracy, Brian

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No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back.

Proverb, Turkish

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Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Randy K. Milholland

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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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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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.

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The wise man realistically accepts as part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them. He lives on the principle of nothing attempted, nothing gained and is resolved that if he fails he is going to fail while trying to succeed.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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

Viscott, David

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

Pitino, Rick

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Aoki, Rocky

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.

Baxter, Anne

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We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.

Grayson, David

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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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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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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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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)

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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 judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.

Hopkins, Tom

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

Porsche, Dr.

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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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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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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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

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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

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Every person who has become successful has simply formed the habit of doing things that failures dislike doing and will not do.

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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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Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.

John Keats