Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

If all this happened to you what paradigm might you develop? How might that paradigm affect you in terms of your life from that point on? What does this tell you about Abe? There are no failures, only lessons to be learned.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

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

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

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.

The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

Many men fail because they quit too soon. They lose faith when the signs are against them. They do not have the courage to hold on, to keep fighting in spite of that which seems insurmountable. If more of us would strike out and attempt the impossible, we very soon would find the truth of that old saying that nothing is impossible... abolish fear and you can accomplish anything you wish.

Welch, Dr. C. E.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

Sophocles

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

Heller, Joseph

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The typical human life seems to be quite unplanned, undirected, unlived, and unsavored. Only those who consciously think about the adventure of living as a matter of making choices among options, which they have found for themselves, ever establish real self-control and live their lives fully.

Albrecht, Karl

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

Wooden, John

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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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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Your failures won't hurt you until you start blaming them on others.

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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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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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

Neuharth, Al

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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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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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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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

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There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no insurmountable barrier except our own inherent weakness of purpose.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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The only people who never fail are those who never try.

Chase, Ilka

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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, 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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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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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 boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.

Baldwin, James

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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