Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Pitino, Rick

Remember that your failures are the seeds of your most glorious successes. Be sad if you must, but don't despair.

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 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.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Proverb

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

Wooden, John

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

Korda, Michael

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

Keats, John

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

Hopkins, Tom

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

Bloch, Arthur

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

Neuharth, Al

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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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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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 world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.

Miller, Henry

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It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not lived at all. In which case, you've failed by default.

J.K. Rowling

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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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Anyone seen on a bus after age thirty has been a failure in life.

Loelia, Duchess

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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 you stand at the edge of the cliff, jump to fly, not to fall.

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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

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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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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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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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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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

Edward Albee

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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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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.

Keats, John

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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

Eliot, George