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

The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Quentin Crisp

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

From time to time, life as a leader can look hopeless. To help you, consider a man who lived through this: Failed in business at age 31. Defeated for the legislature at 32. Again failed in business at 34. Sweetheart died at 35. Had a nervous breakdown at 36. Defeated in election at 38. Defeated for Congress at 43. Defeated for Congress at 46. Defeated for Congress at 48. Defeated for Senate at 55. Defeated for Vice President at 56. Defeated for Senate at 58. Elected President at age 60. This man was Abraham Lincoln.

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

Bartkowski, Steve

Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

Givens, Charles J.

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

Carver, George Washington

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

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

Wooden, John

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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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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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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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 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 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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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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In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.

Robertson, Frederick W.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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.

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.

Bill Lyon

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

Chase, Ilka

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No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back.

Proverb, Turkish

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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If you've never failed you've never tried.

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Bloch, Arthur

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

George, William Lloyd

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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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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.

Baxter, Anne