Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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

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.

We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

Kettering, Charles F.

I am often confronted by the necessity of standing by one of my empirical selves and relinquishing the rest. Not that I would not. If I could, be... a great athlete and make a million a year, be a wit, a born -- vivant and a lady killer,as well as a philosopher, a philanthropist ... and saint. But the thing is simply impossible. The millionaire's work would run counter to the saint s; the bon-vivant and the philanthropist would trip each other up; the philosopher and the lady killer could not well keep house in the same tenement of clay. Such different characters may conceivably, at the outset of life. Be alike possible for a man. But to make any one of them actual,the rest must more of less be suppressed. So the seeker of his truest, strongest, deepest self must review the list carefully and pick out on which to stake his salvation. All other selves thereupon become unreal, but the fortunes of this self are real. Its failure are real failures, its triumphs real triumphs carrying shame and gladness with them.

James, William

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

Kaufman, Herbert

Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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

Keats, John

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There is no such thing as accidental failure. All failure is at least half imposed.

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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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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Eliot, George

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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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

South, Bishop Robert

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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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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If you are doing your best, you will not have to worry about failure.

Hillyer, Robert S.

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The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Aoki, Rocky

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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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

Baxter, Anne

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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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Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Loelia, Duchess

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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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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

James, William

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No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.

Bose, Amar Gopal

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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Hopkins, Tom

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

Heller, Joseph

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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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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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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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 only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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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