Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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

Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

Patton, George S.

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

Pitino, Rick

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Robbins, Anthony

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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 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

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.

Picabia, Francis

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Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.

Melville, Herman

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

Porsche, Dr.

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You cannot explain failure any more than you can argue with success.

Clarke, J. Richard

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Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Chase, Ilka

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.

Stein, Ben

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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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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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A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed -- I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.

Clemenceau, Georges

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

Korda, Michael

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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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We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free. Tom Robbins Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.

Barton, Bruce

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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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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

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He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

Heller, Joseph

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

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

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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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

Aoki, Rocky

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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

Proverb

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa