Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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

Viscott, David

You can't be a winner and be afraid to lose.

Lynch, Charles

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

We learn from failure much more than from success; we often discover what we will do by finding our what we will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Smiles, Samuel

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

Edward Albee

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

Pitino, Rick

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They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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Every person who has become successful has simply formed the habit of doing things that failures dislike doing and will not do.

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Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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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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We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.

Grayson, David

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We are all failures -- at least, all the best of us are.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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You must think of failure and defeat as the springboards to new achievements or to the next level of accomplishment.

Brown, Les

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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 too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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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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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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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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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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There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no insurmountable barrier except our own inherent weakness of purpose.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Hoffer, Eric

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We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure all your life.

Gardner, John W.

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

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When someone is going downhill everyone likes to give them a kick.

Proverb

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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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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Sugarman, Joseph

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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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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The typical human life seems to be quite unplanned, undirected, unlived, and unsavored. Only those who consciously think about the adventure of living as a matter of making choices among options, which they have found for themselves, ever establish real self-control and live their lives fully.

Albrecht, Karl

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

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

Picabia, Francis

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

Neuharth, Al

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob