Motivational Quotes

Failure

Success is 99 percent failure.

- Honda, Soichiro

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

People don't fail, they give up

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Korda, Michael

Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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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Failure is not the worst thing in the world -- the very worst is not to try

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Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results.

James, William

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

Cole, Edwin Louis

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

Grayson, David

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

Proverb, German

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Failure does not count. If you accept this, you'll be successful. What causes most people to fail is that after one failure, they'll stop trying.

Burford, Frank

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

20.

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Waitley, Denis

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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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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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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Heller, Joseph

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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

Nixon, Richard M.

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Remember that your failures are the seeds of your most glorious successes. Be sad if you must, but don't despair.

31.

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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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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Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.

J.K. Rowling

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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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.

36.

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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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.

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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

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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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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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

Lynch, Charles

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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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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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If you are doing your best, you will not have to worry about failure.

Hillyer, Robert S.

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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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He's no failure. He's not dead yet.