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

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Brown, Les

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

James, William

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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

A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

Sophocles

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

Carver, George Washington

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The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Grayson, David

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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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I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty.

Neuharth, Al

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

Bloch, Arthur

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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

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

Quentin Crisp

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If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.

Porsche, Dr.

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Proverb

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The man who tries to do something and fails is infinitely better than he who tries to do nothing and succeeds.

Jones, Lloyd

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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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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

Skinner, B(urrhus) F(rederic)

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Even a tombstone says good things about a fellow who's down.

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

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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People don't fail, they give up

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Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.

Keats, John

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

Rohn, Jim

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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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.