Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Bloch, Arthur

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

Carver, George Washington

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

James, William

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

Phillips, Wendell

Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

Givens, Charles J.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Eliot, George

If you are bitten by a snake, what's the best thing to do? Remain calm, separate the poison from the rest of your body, suck the poison out. Worst thing to do: get upset, chase and kill snake. Same when someone strikes out at you verbally. Remain calm, don't try to strike back at the other person. Don't let the poison spread throughout your system.

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

Pitino, Rick

A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed -- I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.

Clemenceau, Georges

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I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win.

Hopkins, Tom

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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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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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I have not failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that won't work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.

Robertson, Frederick W.

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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 for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the determined endeavor; the unconquerable will. There is no failure for the man who gets up every time he falls, who rebounds like a rubber ball, who persists when everyone else gives up, who pushes on when everyone else turns back.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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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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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Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

Carl Jung

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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 simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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A hard fall means a high bounce... if you're made of the right material.

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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

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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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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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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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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

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We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

Kettering, Charles F.

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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

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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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We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free. Tom Robbins Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.

Barton, Bruce

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The typical human life seems to be quite unplanned, undirected, unlived, and unsavored. Only those who consciously think about the adventure of living as a matter of making choices among options, which they have found for themselves, ever establish real self-control and live their lives fully.

Albrecht, Karl

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Mckinnon, Dan