Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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.

If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Quentin Crisp

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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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You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

Cole, Edwin Louis

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You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.

Williams, A.L.

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Silicon Valley is a graveyard. Failure is Silicon Valley's greatest strength.

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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.

Proverb, African

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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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When someone is going downhill everyone likes to give them a kick.

Proverb

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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty.

Neuharth, Al

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

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

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

James, William

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

Porsche, Dr.

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No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.

Bose, Amar Gopal

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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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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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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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No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Even a tombstone says good things about a fellow who's down.

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You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to fall down flatBut to lie there-that's a disgrace.

Cooke, E. V.

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

Carver, George Washington

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

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

Pitino, Rick

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There is no such thing as accidental failure. All failure is at least half imposed.

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

Baxter, Anne

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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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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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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