Motivational Quotes

Failure

It is for want of application, rather than of means that people fail,

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Failure

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.

Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win

Reuther, Walter

The only people who never fail are those who never try.

Chase, Ilka

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

If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

Quentin Crisp

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

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

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

Givens, Charles J.

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Robbins, Anthony

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If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.

Baxter, Anne

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

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

Sophocles

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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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Failure does not count. If you accept this, you'll be successful. What causes most people to fail is that after one failure, they'll stop trying.

Burford, Frank

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results.

James, William

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

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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 the path of least persistence

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I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.

Hopkins, Tom

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

Viscott, David

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

Aoki, Rocky

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He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.

Miller, Arthur

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

Confucius

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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

Porsche, Dr.

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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

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The wise man realistically accepts as part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them. He lives on the principle of nothing attempted, nothing gained and is resolved that if he fails he is going to fail while trying to succeed.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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

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Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.

John Keats

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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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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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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