Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Korda, Michael

Best Quotes about Failure

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

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

Hoffer, Eric

The man who tries to do something and fails is infinitely better than he who tries to do nothing and succeeds.

Jones, Lloyd

Failure is not the worst thing in the world -- the very worst is not to try

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

You win only if you aren't afraid to lose.

Aoki, Rocky

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He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.

Miller, Arthur

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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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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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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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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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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Picabia, Francis

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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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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We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.

Grayson, David

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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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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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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People don't fail, they give up

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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

Wooden, John

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

Lynch, Charles

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

South, Bishop Robert

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

Keats, John

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We learn from failure much more than from success; we often discover what we will do by finding our what we will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Smiles, Samuel

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

Proverb, German

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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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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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Anyone seen on a bus after age thirty has been a failure in life.

Loelia, Duchess

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.

Dahlberg, Edward

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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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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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Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.

John Keats

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

Melville, Herman

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

Porsche, Dr.

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