Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Lynch, Charles

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

Proverb, African

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

Kaufman, Herbert

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

Mckinnon, Dan

The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall.

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

Ziglar, Zig

Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

South, Bishop Robert

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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

Baxter, Anne

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

Melville, Herman

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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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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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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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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 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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If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.

Bartkowski, Steve

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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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Silicon Valley is a graveyard. Failure is Silicon Valley's greatest strength.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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If all this happened to you what paradigm might you develop? How might that paradigm affect you in terms of your life from that point on? What does this tell you about Abe? There are no failures, only lessons to be learned.

Winfrey, Oprah

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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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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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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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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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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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

Keats, John

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Failure does not count. If you accept this, you'll be successful. What causes most people to fail is that after one failure, they'll stop trying.

Burford, Frank

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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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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.

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

Picabia, Francis

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

Sophocles

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

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