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

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

Carver, George Washington

2.

A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

Confucius

3.

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

4.

Past failures are guideposts to success.

5.

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

Keats, John

6.

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

7.

Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.

Strindberg, J. August

8.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

9.

Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

10.

We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure all your life.

Gardner, John W.

11.

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

12.

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

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

13.

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

Givens, Charles J.

14.

The man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere.

Swinnerton, Frank

15.

The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall.

16.

Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

Fitzgerald, Ella

17.

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

18.

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.

19.

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

20.

People don't fail, they give up

21.

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.

22.

If you've never failed you've never tried.

23.

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

24.

Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

25.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

26.

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

Robbins, Anthony

27.

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

28.

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

Sophocles

29.

You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

Disney, Walt

30.

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

Pitino, Rick

31.

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

Proverb, Turkish

32.

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

33.

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

34.

I cannot give the formula for success, but I can give you the formula of failure -- which is try to please everybody.

Swope, Herbert B.

35.

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

Carl Jung

36.

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

South, Bishop Robert

37.

Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

38.

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

Grayson, David

39.

The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

40.

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

Mckinnon, Dan

41.

Those who have failed miserably are often the first to see God's formula for success.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

42.

Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

43.

We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.

Engstrom, Ted W.

44.

You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.

45.

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

Eliot, George

46.

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

47.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.