Motivational Quotes

Failure

Success is 99 percent failure.

- Honda, Soichiro

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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.

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

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.

John Keats

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

Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

Waitley, Denis

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.

Robbins, Anthony

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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

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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Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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If you are bitten by a snake, what's the best thing to do? Remain calm, separate the poison from the rest of your body, suck the poison out. Worst thing to do: get upset, chase and kill snake. Same when someone strikes out at you verbally. Remain calm, don't try to strike back at the other person. Don't let the poison spread throughout your system.

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

Melville, Herman

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The only people who never fail are those who never try.

Chase, Ilka

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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

Baxter, Anne

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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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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I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Bill Lyon

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Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

Wooden, John

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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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There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no insurmountable barrier except our own inherent weakness of purpose.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Proverb, African

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

Seneca

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

Sophocles

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

Neuharth, Al

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If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.

Bartkowski, Steve

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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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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There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

Keats, John

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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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

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Loelia, Duchess

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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