Motivational Quotes

Failure

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

- Gore Vidal

Best Quotes about Failure

If you've never failed you've never tried.

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

Confucius

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

Korda, Michael

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

Pitino, Rick

We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.

Randy K. Milholland

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

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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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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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.

Proverb, African

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The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.

Picabia, Francis

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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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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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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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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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Those who have failed miserably are often the first to see God's formula for success.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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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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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

Skinner, B(urrhus) F(rederic)

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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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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

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There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

Keats, John

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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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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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

Neuharth, Al

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Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Proverb, German

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No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results.

James, William

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

Heller, Joseph

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Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

Waitley, Denis

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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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We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free. Tom Robbins Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.

Barton, Bruce

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People don't fail, they give up

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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 not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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

James, William

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

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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.