Motivational Quotes

Failure

I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

- Patton, George S.

Best Quotes about Failure

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

James, William

An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

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

Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

Waitley, Denis

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

There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.

Baldwin, James

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

I have not failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that won't work.

Edison, Thomas A.

Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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Silicon Valley is a graveyard. Failure is Silicon Valley's greatest strength.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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.

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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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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The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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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 cannot explain failure any more than you can argue with success.

Clarke, J. Richard

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There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

Hillyer, Robert S.

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

Grayson, David

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

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

Wooden, John

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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

Reuther, Walter

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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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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

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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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I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Robbins, Anthony

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

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

Melville, Herman

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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

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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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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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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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The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.

Weiskott, Gerald. N.