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

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

Pitino, Rick

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.

Hubbard, Elbert

Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Schuller, Robert H.

Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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.

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

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

Hopkins, Tom

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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A hard fall means a high bounce... if you're made of the right material.

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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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All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who live together through long years get to know one another's failings; but they also come to know what is worthy of respect and admiration in those they live with and in themselves. If at the end one can say, This man used to the limit the powers that God granted him; he was worthy of love and respect and of the sacrifices of many people, made in order that he might achieve what he deemed to be his task, then that life has been lived well and there are no regrets.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win

Reuther, Walter

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There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

Hoffer, Eric

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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 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 only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Kaufman, Herbert

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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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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 is the path of least persistence

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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

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

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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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Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

Carver, George Washington

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We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.

Merton, Thomas

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Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.

J.K. Rowling

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Tracy, Brian

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Sophocles

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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It takes a lot more energy to fail than to succeed, since it takes a lot of concentrated energy to hold on to beliefs that don't work.

Gillies, Jerry

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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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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No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Viscott, David