Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Picabia, Francis

Best Quotes about Failure

If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.

Bartkowski, Steve

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

It takes a lot more energy to fail than to succeed, since it takes a lot of concentrated energy to hold on to beliefs that don't work.

Gillies, Jerry

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

People don't fail, they give up

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

Wooden, John

Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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

Mckinnon, Dan

10.

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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No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back.

Proverb, Turkish

12.

You can fail so very often. But you are not a failure until you give up.

13.

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

Pitino, Rick

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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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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.

Proverb, African

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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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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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Lynch, Charles

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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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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Proverb, German

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

Keats, John

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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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Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory.

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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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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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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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There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no insurmountable barrier except our own inherent weakness of purpose.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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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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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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

Viscott, David