Motivational Quotes

Failure

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

- Ruth, Babe

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Brown, Les

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.

Remember that your failures are the seeds of your most glorious successes. Be sad if you must, but don't despair.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Hopkins, Tom

Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes.

Lawes, Lewis E.

Even a tombstone says good things about a fellow who's down.

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

Lutzer, Erwin W.

Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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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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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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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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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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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.

Porsche, Dr.

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

Proverb, African

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I cannot give the formula for success, but I can give you the formula of failure -- which is try to please everybody.

Swope, Herbert B.

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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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Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus.

South, Bishop Robert

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

Phillips, Wendell

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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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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

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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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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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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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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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You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

Disney, Walt

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.

Mckinnon, Dan

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

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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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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I am often confronted by the necessity of standing by one of my empirical selves and relinquishing the rest. Not that I would not. If I could, be... a great athlete and make a million a year, be a wit, a born -- vivant and a lady killer,as well as a philosopher, a philanthropist ... and saint. But the thing is simply impossible. The millionaire's work would run counter to the saint s; the bon-vivant and the philanthropist would trip each other up; the philosopher and the lady killer could not well keep house in the same tenement of clay. Such different characters may conceivably, at the outset of life. Be alike possible for a man. But to make any one of them actual,the rest must more of less be suppressed. So the seeker of his truest, strongest, deepest self must review the list carefully and pick out on which to stake his salvation. All other selves thereupon become unreal, but the fortunes of this self are real. Its failure are real failures, its triumphs real triumphs carrying shame and gladness with them.

James, William

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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

Skinner, B(urrhus) F(rederic)

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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

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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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Failure is not the worst thing in the world -- the very worst is not to try

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Misfortunes one can endure -- they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults -- Ah! there is the sting of life.

Wilde, Oscar