Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Mckinnon, Dan

Best Quotes about Failure

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

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

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

South, Bishop Robert

No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back.

Proverb, Turkish

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

Pitino, Rick

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.

Robbins, Anthony

The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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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.

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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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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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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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It is for want of application, rather than of means that people fail,

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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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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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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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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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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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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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

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Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.

Keats, John

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

Loelia, Duchess

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Porsche, Dr.

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You cannot explain failure any more than you can argue with success.

Clarke, J. Richard

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

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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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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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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.

Melville, Herman

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Seneca

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Phillips, Wendell

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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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You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Keats, John

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

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake