Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Pitino, Rick

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

Cole, Edwin Louis

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

The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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

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

Viscott, David

Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Sophocles

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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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 too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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

Melville, Herman

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

Kettering, Charles F.

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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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Misfortunes one can endure -- they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults -- Ah! there is the sting of life.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Quentin Crisp

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

Porsche, Dr.

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

Edward Albee

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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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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.

Marcus, Greil

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An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

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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

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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

Seneca

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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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A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.

Bloch, Arthur

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Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.

Strindberg, J. August

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Tracy, Brian

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The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

Ziglar, Zig

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The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.

Miller, Henry

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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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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.