Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Kaufman, Herbert

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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

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

Bristol, Claude M.

Failure is the path of least persistence

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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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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

Skinner, B(urrhus) F(rederic)

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

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On this path effort never goes to waste, and there is no failure. Even a little effort toward spiritual awareness will protect you from the greatest fear.

Bhagavad Gita

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I think you actually get a kick out of being disappointed and under-achieving, because it's easier, isn't it? Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.

David Nicholls

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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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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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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Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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

Pitino, Rick

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Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

Givens, Charles J.

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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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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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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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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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You can always tell who the pioneers are because they have arrows in their back and are lying face down in the dirt.

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

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

Confucius

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than I was and began diverting all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

J.K. Rowling

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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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I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win.

Hopkins, Tom

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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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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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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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

Hoffer, Eric

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The typical human life seems to be quite unplanned, undirected, unlived, and unsavored. Only those who consciously think about the adventure of living as a matter of making choices among options, which they have found for themselves, ever establish real self-control and live their lives fully.

Albrecht, Karl

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

Porsche, Dr.

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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.

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

Baxter, Anne