Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who live together through long years get to know one another's failings; but they also come to know what is worthy of respect and admiration in those they live with and in themselves. If at the end one can say, This man used to the limit the powers that God granted him; he was worthy of love and respect and of the sacrifices of many people, made in order that he might achieve what he deemed to be his task, then that life has been lived well and there are no regrets.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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

Robbins, Anthony

We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

Kettering, Charles F.

Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

Samuel McChord Crothers

In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try.

Viscott, David

Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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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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The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

Proverb, German

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

Lynch, Charles

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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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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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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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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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You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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 true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.

Phillips, Wendell

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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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It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Tracy, Brian

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

Proverb

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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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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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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I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Robbins, Anthony

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

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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 hard fall means a high bounce... if you're made of the right material.

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

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

Sophocles

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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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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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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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

Chase, Ilka

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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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Success is 99 percent failure.