Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Mckinnon, Dan

Best Quotes about Failure

Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.

Robbins, Anthony

Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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

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

He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

Heller, Joseph

Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

Ziglar, Zig

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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.

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

Confucius

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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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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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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Your failures won't hurt you until you start blaming them on others.

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I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

Patton, George S.

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Pitino, Rick

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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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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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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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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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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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What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.

Phillips, Wendell

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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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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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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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

Wooden, John

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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.

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

Bill Lyon

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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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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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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.

Miller, Henry

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If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.