Motivational Quotes

Failure

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.

Best Quotes about Failure

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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

Pitino, Rick

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

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Edison, Thomas A.

Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty.

Neuharth, Al

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

We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure all your life.

Gardner, John W.

When someone is going downhill everyone likes to give them a kick.

Proverb

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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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Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.

J.K. Rowling

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

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I have always felt that although someone may defeat me, and I strike out in a ball game, the pitcher on the particular day was the best player. But I know when I see him again, I'm going to be ready for his curve ball. Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.

Aaron, Hank

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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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The man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere.

Swinnerton, Frank

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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 an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet.

Proverb, German

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

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

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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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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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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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Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

Waitley, Denis

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They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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He's no failure. He's not dead yet.

George, William Lloyd

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People don't fail, they give up

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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 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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Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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The only people who never fail are those who never try.

Chase, Ilka

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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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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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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Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it's all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you're willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you're willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you've got the potential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.

Sugarman, Joseph

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We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.

Merton, Thomas

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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

Sophocles

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Porsche, Dr.

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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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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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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

Robbins, Anthony

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