Motivational Quotes

Failure

Everyone pushes a falling fence.

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Failure

Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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

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.

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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

Pitino, Rick

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

Viscott, David

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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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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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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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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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

South, Bishop Robert

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

Robbins, Anthony

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People don't fail, they give up

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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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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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You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

Cole, Edwin Louis

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

Tracy, Brian

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

Skinner, B(urrhus) F(rederic)

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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

Baxter, Anne

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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You can fail so very often. But you are not a failure until you give up.

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

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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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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

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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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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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.