Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Pitino, Rick

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Melville, Herman

When you stand at the edge of the cliff, jump to fly, not to fall.

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

If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Picabia, Francis

Many men fail because they quit too soon. They lose faith when the signs are against them. They do not have the courage to hold on, to keep fighting in spite of that which seems insurmountable. If more of us would strike out and attempt the impossible, we very soon would find the truth of that old saying that nothing is impossible... abolish fear and you can accomplish anything you wish.

Welch, Dr. C. E.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Bristol, Claude M.

If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

Seneca

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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You cannot explain failure any more than you can argue with success.

Clarke, J. Richard

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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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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Every person who has become successful has simply formed the habit of doing things that failures dislike doing and will not do.

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

South, Bishop Robert

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

George, William Lloyd

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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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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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The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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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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Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

Carver, George Washington

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Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Pitino, Rick

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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 are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.

Baldwin, James

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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If you're willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.

Edward Albee

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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 such thing as accidental failure. All failure is at least half imposed.

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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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The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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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.