Motivational Quotes

Failure

Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

- Richardson, Tony

Best Quotes about Failure

The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.

Picabia, Francis

I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.

Hopkins, Tom

Anyone seen on a bus after age thirty has been a failure in life.

Loelia, Duchess

Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.

Dahlberg, Edward

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

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

Pitino, Rick

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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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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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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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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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

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

Melville, Herman

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You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.

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

Givens, Charles J.

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.

Bartkowski, Steve

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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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People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

Lao-Tzu

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

Hill, Napoleon

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On this path effort never goes to waste, and there is no failure. Even a little effort toward spiritual awareness will protect you from the greatest fear.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Proverb, German

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the determined endeavor; the unconquerable will. There is no failure for the man who gets up every time he falls, who rebounds like a rubber ball, who persists when everyone else gives up, who pushes on when everyone else turns back.

Marden, Orison Swett

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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

Rohn, Jim

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A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.

Bloch, Arthur

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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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If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded. You must never regret what might have been. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot see.

Stern, Richard Martin

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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When you stand at the edge of the cliff, jump to fly, not to fall.