Motivational Quotes

Failure

Success is 99 percent failure.

- Honda, Soichiro

Best Quotes about Failure

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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

Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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

When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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

Hill, Napoleon

The man who tries to do something and fails is infinitely better than he who tries to do nothing and succeeds.

Jones, Lloyd

When you stand at the edge of the cliff, jump to fly, not to fall.

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

Loelia, Duchess

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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

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

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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 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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There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.

Baldwin, James

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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

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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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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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The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

Ziglar, Zig

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People don't fail, they give up

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Neuharth, Al

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

Proverb

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

Heller, Joseph

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Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Quentin Crisp

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Failures are divided into two classes -- those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

Salak, John Charles

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Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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The moment avoiding failure becomes your motivation, you're down the path of inactivity. You stumble only if you're moving.

Goizueta, Roberto

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We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure all your life.

Gardner, John W.

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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

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

Bill Lyon

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I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win.

Hopkins, Tom

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No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back.

Proverb, Turkish

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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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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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The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Sophocles

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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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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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory.

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If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded. You must never regret what might have been. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot see.

Stern, Richard Martin

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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.