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

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

Robbins, Anthony

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.

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

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.

Randy K. Milholland

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

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

Bloch, Arthur

Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

Winfrey, Oprah

If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.

Bartkowski, Steve

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The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.

Picabia, Francis

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

Proverb, African

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

Korda, Michael

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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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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

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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On this path effort never goes to waste, and there is no failure. Even a little effort toward spiritual awareness will protect you from the greatest fear.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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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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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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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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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 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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Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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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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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Those who have failed miserably are often the first to see God's formula for success.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

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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

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

Chase, Ilka

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Failures are divided into two classes -- those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

Salak, John Charles

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Proverb, German

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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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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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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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Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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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