Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- South, Bishop Robert

Best Quotes about Failure

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

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

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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

Swinnerton, Frank

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

Quentin Crisp

Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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

Confucius

Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

I am often confronted by the necessity of standing by one of my empirical selves and relinquishing the rest. Not that I would not. If I could, be... a great athlete and make a million a year, be a wit, a born -- vivant and a lady killer,as well as a philosopher, a philanthropist ... and saint. But the thing is simply impossible. The millionaire's work would run counter to the saint s; the bon-vivant and the philanthropist would trip each other up; the philosopher and the lady killer could not well keep house in the same tenement of clay. Such different characters may conceivably, at the outset of life. Be alike possible for a man. But to make any one of them actual,the rest must more of less be suppressed. So the seeker of his truest, strongest, deepest self must review the list carefully and pick out on which to stake his salvation. All other selves thereupon become unreal, but the fortunes of this self are real. Its failure are real failures, its triumphs real triumphs carrying shame and gladness with them.

James, William

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.

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Miller, Henry

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

19.

The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

Proverb, Chinese

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Remember that your failures are the seeds of your most glorious successes. Be sad if you must, but don't despair.

21.

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

Porsche, Dr.

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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.

Proverb, African

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

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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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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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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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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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The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Edward Albee

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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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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

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

Waitley, Denis

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Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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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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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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

Aoki, Rocky

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Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it's all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you're willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you're willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you've got the potential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.

Sugarman, Joseph

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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Misfortunes one can endure -- they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults -- Ah! there is the sting of life.