Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Bristol, Claude M.

Best Quotes about Failure

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.

Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

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

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

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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

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Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

Carl Jung

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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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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Rohn, Jim

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You must think of failure and defeat as the springboards to new achievements or to the next level of accomplishment.

Brown, Les

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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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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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

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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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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Pitino, Rick

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

Melville, Herman

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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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Just because you've lost doesn't necessarily mean you've failed.

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

Fitzgerald, Ella

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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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If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not lived at all. In which case, you've failed by default.

J.K. Rowling

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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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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.

Wilde, Oscar

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

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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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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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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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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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

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William