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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Loelia, Duchess

Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Bristol, Claude M.

The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Wooden, John

If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.

Bill Lyon

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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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, 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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Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Porsche, Dr.

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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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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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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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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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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 to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Keats, John

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

Confucius

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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

Givens, Charles J.

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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 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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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

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You win only if you aren't afraid to lose.

Aoki, Rocky

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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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There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

Hoffer, Eric

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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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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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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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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

Hill, Napoleon

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You can always tell who the pioneers are because they have arrows in their back and are lying face down in the dirt.