Motivational Quotes

Failure

Success is 99 percent failure.

- Honda, Soichiro

Best Quotes about Failure

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.

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

Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus.

South, Bishop Robert

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.

Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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

Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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

Picabia, Francis

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

Melville, Herman

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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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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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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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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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Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.

Dahlberg, Edward

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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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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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A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.

Bloch, Arthur

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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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

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The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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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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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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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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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 win only if you aren't afraid to lose.

Aoki, Rocky

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

Edward Albee

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Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times,and what happens when he says, I am a failure.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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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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We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.

Grayson, David

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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

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

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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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People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

Lao-Tzu

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I have always felt that although someone may defeat me, and I strike out in a ball game, the pitcher on the particular day was the best player. But I know when I see him again, I'm going to be ready for his curve ball. Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.

Aaron, Hank

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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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 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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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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

Bill Lyon

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

Loelia, Duchess

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

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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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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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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

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Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.

Strindberg, J. August

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

Robbins, Anthony