Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Pitino, Rick

Best Quotes about Failure

Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.

Marcus, Greil

If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

Seneca

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

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

We are all failures -- at least, all the best of us are.

Barrie, Sir James M.

Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Proverb, African

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.

Dahlberg, Edward

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I have not failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that won't work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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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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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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I think you actually get a kick out of being disappointed and under-achieving, because it's easier, isn't it? Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.

David Nicholls

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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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Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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

Pitino, Rick

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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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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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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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

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He's no failure. He's not dead yet.

George, William Lloyd

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Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times,and what happens when he says, I am a failure.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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The moment avoiding failure becomes your motivation, you're down the path of inactivity. You stumble only if you're moving.

Goizueta, Roberto

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Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

Fitzgerald, Ella

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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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You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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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If you are bitten by a snake, what's the best thing to do? Remain calm, separate the poison from the rest of your body, suck the poison out. Worst thing to do: get upset, chase and kill snake. Same when someone strikes out at you verbally. Remain calm, don't try to strike back at the other person. Don't let the poison spread throughout your system.

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Sophocles

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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.

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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.

Melville, Herman