Motivational Quotes

Failure

It is for want of application, rather than of means that people fail,

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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

Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

When you fall, don't get up empty handed

The man who tries to do something and fails is infinitely better than he who tries to do nothing and succeeds.

Jones, Lloyd

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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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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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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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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

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Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Waitley, Denis

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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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They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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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

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Every person who has become successful has simply formed the habit of doing things that failures dislike doing and will not do.

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Silicon Valley is a graveyard. Failure is Silicon Valley's greatest strength.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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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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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

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If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Proverb, German

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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

Carver, George Washington

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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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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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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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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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

South, Bishop Robert

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Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Lynch, Charles

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

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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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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

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Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory.

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You can always tell who the pioneers are because they have arrows in their back and are lying face down in the dirt.

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

Proverb, African

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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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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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Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De