Motivational Quotes

Failure

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

- Eliot, George

Best Quotes about Failure

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

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

James, William

Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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

Bill Lyon

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

Pitino, Rick

If you are bitten by a snake, what's the best thing to do? Remain calm, separate the poison from the rest of your body, suck the poison out. Worst thing to do: get upset, chase and kill snake. Same when someone strikes out at you verbally. Remain calm, don't try to strike back at the other person. Don't let the poison spread throughout your system.

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

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

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

Korda, Michael

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

Porsche, Dr.

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We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.

Grayson, David

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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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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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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

Quentin Crisp

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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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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win

Reuther, Walter

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Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

Hill, Napoleon

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No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.

Marcus, Greil

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

Hill, Napoleon

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You can fail so very often. But you are not a failure until you give up.

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

Phillips, Wendell

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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

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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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Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.

Robbins, Anthony

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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

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

Carver, George Washington

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

Proverb, German

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People don't fail, they give up

40.

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

Proverb

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From time to time, life as a leader can look hopeless. To help you, consider a man who lived through this: Failed in business at age 31. Defeated for the legislature at 32. Again failed in business at 34. Sweetheart died at 35. Had a nervous breakdown at 36. Defeated in election at 38. Defeated for Congress at 43. Defeated for Congress at 46. Defeated for Congress at 48. Defeated for Senate at 55. Defeated for Vice President at 56. Defeated for Senate at 58. Elected President at age 60. This man was Abraham Lincoln.

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect, we will immediately feel overwhelmed.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Wooden, John

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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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It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Tracy, Brian

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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.