Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Proverb, German

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Loelia, Duchess

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

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Kaufman, Herbert

My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.

Mckinnon, Dan

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Edward Albee

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

Confucius

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I have always felt that although someone may defeat me, and I strike out in a ball game, the pitcher on the particular day was the best player. But I know when I see him again, I'm going to be ready for his curve ball. Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.

Aaron, Hank

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Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

Walt Whitman

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

Seneca

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Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Baxter, Anne

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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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

Picabia, Francis

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

Proverb, German

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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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What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.

Phillips, Wendell

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.

Stein, Ben

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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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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

Carl Jung

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

Wooden, John

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

Viscott, David

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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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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.

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

Bill Lyon

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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

Chase, Ilka

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell