Motivational Quotes

Failure

Success is 99 percent failure.

- Honda, Soichiro

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Chase, Ilka

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

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

Carl Jung

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

Brown, Les

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

Grayson, David

Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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

Baxter, Anne

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Proverb, African

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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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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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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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 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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To win you've got to stay in the game.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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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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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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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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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

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The wise man realistically accepts as part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them. He lives on the principle of nothing attempted, nothing gained and is resolved that if he fails he is going to fail while trying to succeed.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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

Bloch, Arthur

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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 is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.

Bose, Amar Gopal

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A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Proverb, German

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There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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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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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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

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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