Motivational Quotes

Failure

Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times,and what happens when he says, I am a failure.

- Hayakawa, S. I.

Best Quotes about Failure

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Kaufman, Herbert

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

Neuharth, Al

Failure does not count. If you accept this, you'll be successful. What causes most people to fail is that after one failure, they'll stop trying.

Burford, Frank

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

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

Brown, Les

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

Tracy, Brian

We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.

Grayson, David

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Viscott, David

16.

We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.

Randy K. Milholland

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Those who have failed miserably are often the first to see God's formula for success.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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

Pitino, Rick

22.

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

Proverb, African

23.

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

24.

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

Bristol, Claude M.

25.

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

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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

27.

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

Reuther, Walter

28.

Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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

31.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.

Phillips, Wendell

33.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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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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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

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

Proverb, German

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect, we will immediately feel overwhelmed.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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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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If you are doing your best, you will not have to worry about failure.

Hillyer, Robert S.

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

Chase, Ilka

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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

46.

There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

Samuel McChord Crothers

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

49.

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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I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.

Baxter, Anne