Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Pitino, Rick

Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.

John Keats

Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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

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

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

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

Proverb

Accept failure as a normal part of living. View it as part of the process of exploring your world; make a note of its lessons and move on.

Hobson, Tom

You can't be a winner and be afraid to lose.

Lynch, Charles

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All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who live together through long years get to know one another's failings; but they also come to know what is worthy of respect and admiration in those they live with and in themselves. If at the end one can say, This man used to the limit the powers that God granted him; he was worthy of love and respect and of the sacrifices of many people, made in order that he might achieve what he deemed to be his task, then that life has been lived well and there are no regrets.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

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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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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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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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A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed -- I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Rohn, Jim

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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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 matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back.

Proverb, Turkish

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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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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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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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

Sophocles

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

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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

Proverb, German

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Quentin Crisp

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try.

Viscott, David

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

Bill Lyon

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I think you actually get a kick out of being disappointed and under-achieving, because it's easier, isn't it? Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.

David Nicholls

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

Clarke, J. Richard