Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Failure

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

There is no such thing as accidental failure. All failure is at least half imposed.

You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

Cole, Edwin Louis

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Tracy, Brian

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Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results.

James, William

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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The typical human life seems to be quite unplanned, undirected, unlived, and unsavored. Only those who consciously think about the adventure of living as a matter of making choices among options, which they have found for themselves, ever establish real self-control and live their lives fully.

Albrecht, Karl

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It is for want of application, rather than of means that people fail,

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Rohn, Jim

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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If you are bitten by a snake, what's the best thing to do? Remain calm, separate the poison from the rest of your body, suck the poison out. Worst thing to do: get upset, chase and kill snake. Same when someone strikes out at you verbally. Remain calm, don't try to strike back at the other person. Don't let the poison spread throughout your system.

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There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no insurmountable barrier except our own inherent weakness of purpose.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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

Proverb, Turkish

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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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He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

Heller, Joseph

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To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.

Viscott, David

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Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

Korda, Michael

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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From time to time, life as a leader can look hopeless. To help you, consider a man who lived through this: Failed in business at age 31. Defeated for the legislature at 32. Again failed in business at 34. Sweetheart died at 35. Had a nervous breakdown at 36. Defeated in election at 38. Defeated for Congress at 43. Defeated for Congress at 46. Defeated for Congress at 48. Defeated for Senate at 55. Defeated for Vice President at 56. Defeated for Senate at 58. Elected President at age 60. This man was Abraham Lincoln.

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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.

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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 not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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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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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 only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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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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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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

Givens, Charles J.

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.