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

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

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

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.

You win only if you aren't afraid to lose.

Aoki, Rocky

Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

Quentin Crisp

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

Edward Albee

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Silicon Valley is a graveyard. Failure is Silicon Valley's greatest strength.

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Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.

J.K. Rowling

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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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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Sophocles

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

Proverb, German

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

Picabia, Francis

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

Seneca

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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You can always tell who the pioneers are because they have arrows in their back and are lying face down in the dirt.

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus.

South, Bishop Robert

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

Loelia, Duchess

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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 is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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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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We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free. Tom Robbins Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.

Barton, Bruce

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The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall.

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We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.

Grayson, David

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Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

Waitley, Denis

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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

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There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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

Neuharth, Al

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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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

George, William Lloyd

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

Lynch, Charles

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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

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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Failure does not count. If you accept this, you'll be successful. What causes most people to fail is that after one failure, they'll stop trying.

Burford, Frank

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect, we will immediately feel overwhelmed.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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It takes a lot more energy to fail than to succeed, since it takes a lot of concentrated energy to hold on to beliefs that don't work.

Gillies, Jerry

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

Hopkins, Tom

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Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.

Stevenson, Robert Louis