Motivational Quotes

Failure

Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes.

- Lawes, Lewis E.

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Mckinnon, Dan

Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

Hill, Napoleon

I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.

Hopkins, Tom

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

Wooden, John

Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

You must think of failure and defeat as the springboards to new achievements or to the next level of accomplishment.

Brown, Les

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

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

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

Pitino, Rick

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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

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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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Silicon Valley is a graveyard. Failure is Silicon Valley's greatest strength.

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

Chase, Ilka

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All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who live together through long years get to know one another's failings; but they also come to know what is worthy of respect and admiration in those they live with and in themselves. If at the end one can say, This man used to the limit the powers that God granted him; he was worthy of love and respect and of the sacrifices of many people, made in order that he might achieve what he deemed to be his task, then that life has been lived well and there are no regrets.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Bill Lyon

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

Bloch, Arthur

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

Givens, Charles J.

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

Melville, Herman

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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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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 man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Viscott, David

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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

South, Bishop Robert

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

Fitzgerald, Ella

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Failure does not count. If you accept this, you'll be successful. What causes most people to fail is that after one failure, they'll stop trying.

Burford, Frank

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

Quentin Crisp

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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Eliot, George

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.

Hubbard, Elbert

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We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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

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

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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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