Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Phillips, Wendell

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Confucius

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

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Schuller, Robert H.

Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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

Porsche, Dr.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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

Bill Lyon

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

George, William Lloyd

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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

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If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect, we will immediately feel overwhelmed.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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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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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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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.

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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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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

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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Tracy, Brian

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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 all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.

Randy K. Milholland

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Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

Wooden, John

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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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Failures are divided into two classes -- those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

Salak, John Charles

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

Lao-Tzu

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The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

Proverb, Chinese

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Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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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 should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Waitley, Denis

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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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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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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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Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.

Hubbard, Elbert