Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Lynch, Charles

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Pitino, Rick

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

Wooden, John

Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Lynch, Charles

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Past failures are guideposts to success.

Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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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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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win

Reuther, Walter

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No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.

Bose, Amar Gopal

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The moment avoiding failure becomes your motivation, you're down the path of inactivity. You stumble only if you're moving.

Goizueta, Roberto

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If you are doing your best, you will not have to worry about failure.

Hillyer, Robert S.

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

Kettering, Charles F.

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Eliot, George

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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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There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

Grayson, David

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It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not lived at all. In which case, you've failed by default.

J.K. Rowling

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Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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

Proverb, German

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

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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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

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

Proverb

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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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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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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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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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