Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- George, William Lloyd

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Hopkins, Tom

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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

Carver, George Washington

Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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

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

Quentin Crisp

All honor to him who shall win the prize. The world has cried for a thousand years. But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears.

Miller, Joaquin

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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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I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

Patton, George S.

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

Neuharth, Al

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Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.

Strindberg, J. August

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Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Kaufman, Herbert

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

Bill Lyon

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

Pitino, Rick

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

George, William Lloyd

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

Bloch, Arthur

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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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There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

Lynch, Charles

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

Heller, Joseph

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

Brown, Les

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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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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Robbins, Anthony

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There is no such thing as accidental failure. All failure is at least half imposed.

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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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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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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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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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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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Even a tombstone says good things about a fellow who's down.

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A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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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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We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure all your life.

Gardner, John W.

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If you're willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.

Edward Albee

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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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Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

Givens, Charles J.

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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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When you fall, don't get up empty handed