Motivational Quotes

Failure

Success is 99 percent failure.

- Honda, Soichiro

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Bloch, Arthur

You can't be a winner and be afraid to lose.

Lynch, Charles

You must think of failure and defeat as the springboards to new achievements or to the next level of accomplishment.

Brown, Les

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

Pitino, Rick

The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

The typical human life seems to be quite unplanned, undirected, unlived, and unsavored. Only those who consciously think about the adventure of living as a matter of making choices among options, which they have found for themselves, ever establish real self-control and live their lives fully.

Albrecht, Karl

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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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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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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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

Proverb

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet.

Proverb, German

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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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 nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.

Baxter, Anne

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

Cole, Edwin Louis

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I have not failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that won't work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than I was and began diverting all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

J.K. Rowling

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I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

Edison, Thomas A.

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There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the determined endeavor; the unconquerable will. There is no failure for the man who gets up every time he falls, who rebounds like a rubber ball, who persists when everyone else gives up, who pushes on when everyone else turns back.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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

Melville, Herman

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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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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 too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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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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When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

Mansfield, Katherine

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It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not lived at all. In which case, you've failed by default.

J.K. Rowling

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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People don't fail, they give up

41.

Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.

Sivananda, Sri Swami