Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

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

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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.

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

Sophocles

Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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

Proverb, German

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.

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

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty.

Neuharth, Al

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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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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Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

Givens, Charles J.

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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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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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

Pitino, Rick

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

Swinnerton, Frank

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

Rohn, Jim

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People don't fail, they give up

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Even a tombstone says good things about a fellow who's down.

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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I think you actually get a kick out of being disappointed and under-achieving, because it's easier, isn't it? Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.

David Nicholls

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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We are all failures -- at least, all the best of us are.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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You can't be a winner and be afraid to lose.

Lynch, Charles

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

Disney, Walt

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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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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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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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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The only people who never fail are those who never try.

Chase, Ilka

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Melville, Herman

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There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

Keats, John

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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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If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.

Bill Lyon