Motivational Quotes

Failure

Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.

- Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

Best Quotes about Failure

Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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

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

Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

Walt Whitman

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

Proverb, Chinese

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.

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

Pitino, Rick

Failure is the path of least persistence

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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 loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

Hoffer, Eric

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You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to fall down flatBut to lie there-that's a disgrace.

Cooke, E. V.

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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Eliot, George

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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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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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

Aoki, Rocky

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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Porsche, Dr.

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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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If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

Seneca

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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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It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.

Stein, Ben

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Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times,and what happens when he says, I am a failure.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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

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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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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

Carver, George Washington

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

South, Bishop Robert

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If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

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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

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

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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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.

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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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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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An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

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When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Melville, Herman

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

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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

Neuharth, Al

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

Loelia, Duchess

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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