Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Hopkins, Tom

Best Quotes about Failure

Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory.

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

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

Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

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

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Proverb, African

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

Viscott, David

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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.

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Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Waitley, Denis

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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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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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Keats, John

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The wise man realistically accepts as part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them. He lives on the principle of nothing attempted, nothing gained and is resolved that if he fails he is going to fail while trying to succeed.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.

Marcus, Greil

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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

James, William

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Proverb, German

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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

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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.

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Melville, Herman

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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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The man who tries to do something and fails is infinitely better than he who tries to do nothing and succeeds.

Jones, Lloyd

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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

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

Neuharth, Al

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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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Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

Walt Whitman

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The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

Eliot, George

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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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