Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Proverb, African

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Pitino, Rick

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.

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

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

Bill Lyon

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

Randy K. Milholland

Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

Hoffer, Eric

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Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.

Robbins, Anthony

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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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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Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

Hill, Napoleon

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Many men fail because they quit too soon. They lose faith when the signs are against them. They do not have the courage to hold on, to keep fighting in spite of that which seems insurmountable. If more of us would strike out and attempt the impossible, we very soon would find the truth of that old saying that nothing is impossible... abolish fear and you can accomplish anything you wish.

Welch, Dr. C. E.

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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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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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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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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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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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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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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From time to time, life as a leader can look hopeless. To help you, consider a man who lived through this: Failed in business at age 31. Defeated for the legislature at 32. Again failed in business at 34. Sweetheart died at 35. Had a nervous breakdown at 36. Defeated in election at 38. Defeated for Congress at 43. Defeated for Congress at 46. Defeated for Congress at 48. Defeated for Senate at 55. Defeated for Vice President at 56. Defeated for Senate at 58. Elected President at age 60. This man was Abraham Lincoln.

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The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

Eliot, George

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

Porsche, Dr.

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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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 is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

Seneca

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A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.

Hubbard, Elbert

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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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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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

Baxter, Anne

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

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

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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Anyone seen on a bus after age thirty has been a failure in life.

Loelia, Duchess

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

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who live together through long years get to know one another's failings; but they also come to know what is worthy of respect and admiration in those they live with and in themselves. If at the end one can say, This man used to the limit the powers that God granted him; he was worthy of love and respect and of the sacrifices of many people, made in order that he might achieve what he deemed to be his task, then that life has been lived well and there are no regrets.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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People don't fail, they give up

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

Reuther, Walter

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If you're willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.

Edward Albee