Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Quentin Crisp

Best Quotes about Failure

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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.

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

Kaufman, Herbert

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

Even a tombstone says good things about a fellow who's down.

There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Neuharth, Al

Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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

13.

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

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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

Seneca

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There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

Keats, John

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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

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He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

Heller, Joseph

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We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

Kettering, Charles F.

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The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

Eliot, George

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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

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

Picabia, Francis

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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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You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.

Williams, A.L.

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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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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Wooden, John

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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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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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The moment avoiding failure becomes your motivation, you're down the path of inactivity. You stumble only if you're moving.

Goizueta, Roberto

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times,and what happens when he says, I am a failure.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory.

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If all this happened to you what paradigm might you develop? How might that paradigm affect you in terms of your life from that point on? What does this tell you about Abe? There are no failures, only lessons to be learned.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Baxter, Anne

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

43.

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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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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The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.

Miller, Henry

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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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I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.

Hopkins, Tom