Motivational Quotes

Failure

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

- Eliot, George

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Carver, George Washington

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

Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.

Bill Lyon

You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to fall down flatBut to lie there-that's a disgrace.

Cooke, E. V.

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

Clarke, J. Richard

There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

Hoffer, Eric

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Your failures won't hurt you until you start blaming them on others.

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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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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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

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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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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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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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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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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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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect, we will immediately feel overwhelmed.

Robbins, Anthony

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Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

Korda, Michael

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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

James, William

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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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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no insurmountable barrier except our own inherent weakness of purpose.

Hubbard, Elbert

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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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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He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

Heller, Joseph

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A hard fall means a high bounce... if you're made of the right material.

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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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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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I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

Patton, George S.

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

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There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the determined endeavor; the unconquerable will. There is no failure for the man who gets up every time he falls, who rebounds like a rubber ball, who persists when everyone else gives up, who pushes on when everyone else turns back.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The wise man realistically accepts as part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them. He lives on the principle of nothing attempted, nothing gained and is resolved that if he fails he is going to fail while trying to succeed.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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