Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

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Best Quotes about Failure

I cannot give the formula for success, but I can give you the formula of failure -- which is try to please everybody.

Swope, Herbert B.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Confucius

We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.

Randy K. Milholland

Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

Samuel McChord Crothers

Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Keats, John

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Picabia, Francis

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If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.

Porsche, Dr.

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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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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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.

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Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results.

James, William

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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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Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

Carver, George Washington

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Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than I was and began diverting all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

J.K. Rowling

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To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.

Viscott, David

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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not lived at all. In which case, you've failed by default.

J.K. Rowling

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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 not the worst thing in the world -- the very worst is not to try

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

Viscott, 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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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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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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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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Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.

John Keats

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

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

Kaufman, Herbert

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He's no failure. He's not dead yet.

George, William Lloyd

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The man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere.

Swinnerton, Frank

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A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed -- I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.

Clemenceau, Georges

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

Proverb

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

Chase, Ilka

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Just because you've lost doesn't necessarily mean you've failed.

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

Quentin Crisp

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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