Motivational Quotes

Failure

Turn your scars into stars

- Schuller, Robert H.

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Robbins, Anthony

Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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

Pitino, Rick

Just because you've lost doesn't necessarily mean you've failed.

Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.

J.K. Rowling

Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

Samuel McChord Crothers

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.

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

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

Edward Albee

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You win only if you aren't afraid to lose.

Aoki, Rocky

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

George, William Lloyd

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Neuharth, Al

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

Bill Lyon

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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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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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Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

Walt Whitman

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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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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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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

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You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to fall down flatBut to lie there-that's a disgrace.

Cooke, E. V.

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It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.

Stein, Ben

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

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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

Brown, Les

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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I think you actually get a kick out of being disappointed and under-achieving, because it's easier, isn't it? Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.

David Nicholls

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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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Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it's all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you're willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you're willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you've got the potential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.

Sugarman, Joseph

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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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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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No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.

Marcus, Greil

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

South, Bishop Robert

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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

Proverb, Turkish

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It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Tracy, Brian

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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