Motivational Quotes

Failure

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.

Best Quotes about Failure

You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

Cole, Edwin Louis

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

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

Pitino, Rick

When you stand at the edge of the cliff, jump to fly, not to fall.

We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.

Merton, Thomas

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

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 would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

Sophocles

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

Confucius

11.

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

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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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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

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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

Wooden, John

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Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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 should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Waitley, Denis

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There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.

Robbins, Anthony

21.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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

George, William Lloyd

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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

Tracy, Brian

28.

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

Baxter, Anne

29.

Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.

Proverb, African

33.

People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

Lao-Tzu

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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I have not failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that won't work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Randy K. Milholland

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Porsche, Dr.

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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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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

46.

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

Edward Albee

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If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win

Reuther, Walter

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

Quentin Crisp

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The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures.