Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Bill Lyon

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Pitino, Rick

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

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.

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

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Bloch, Arthur

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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

South, Bishop Robert

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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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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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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.

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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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If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Proverb, German

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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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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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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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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Hopkins, Tom

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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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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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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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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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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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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The typical human life seems to be quite unplanned, undirected, unlived, and unsavored. Only those who consciously think about the adventure of living as a matter of making choices among options, which they have found for themselves, ever establish real self-control and live their lives fully.

Albrecht, Karl

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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 not fatal, but failure to change might be.

Wooden, John

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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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Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.

J.K. Rowling

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

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The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Brown, Les