Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Aoki, Rocky

Best Quotes about Failure

The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall.

Your failures won't hurt you until you start blaming them on others.

Many men fail because they quit too soon. They lose faith when the signs are against them. They do not have the courage to hold on, to keep fighting in spite of that which seems insurmountable. If more of us would strike out and attempt the impossible, we very soon would find the truth of that old saying that nothing is impossible... abolish fear and you can accomplish anything you wish.

Welch, Dr. C. E.

Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

Proverb, Chinese

Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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

Neuharth, Al

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

However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

Nixon, Richard M.

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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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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Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it's all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you're willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you're willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you've got the potential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.

Sugarman, Joseph

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To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.

Viscott, David

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When someone is going downhill everyone likes to give them a kick.

Proverb

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Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

Korda, Michael

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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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

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

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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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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He's no failure. He's not dead yet.

George, William Lloyd

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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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You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

Cole, Edwin Louis

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I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.

Baxter, Anne

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He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.

Miller, Arthur

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

Rohn, Jim

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Aoki, Rocky

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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It takes a lot more energy to fail than to succeed, since it takes a lot of concentrated energy to hold on to beliefs that don't work.

Gillies, Jerry

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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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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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He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

Heller, Joseph

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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

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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

Quentin Crisp

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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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The moment avoiding failure becomes your motivation, you're down the path of inactivity. You stumble only if you're moving.

Goizueta, Roberto

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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