Motivational Quotes

Failure

Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes.

- Lawes, Lewis E.

Best Quotes about Failure

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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

Pitino, Rick

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

When you fall, don't get up empty handed

Misfortunes one can endure -- they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults -- Ah! there is the sting of life.

Wilde, Oscar

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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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There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try.

Viscott, David

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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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.

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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 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 only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Kaufman, Herbert

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

Bill Lyon

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

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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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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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Accept failure as a normal part of living. View it as part of the process of exploring your world; make a note of its lessons and move on.

Hobson, Tom

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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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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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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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When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Givens, Charles J.

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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