Motivational Quotes

Failure

Success is 99 percent failure.

- Honda, Soichiro

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Chase, Ilka

You win only if you aren't afraid to lose.

Aoki, Rocky

Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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

South, Bishop Robert

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

Proverb, African

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

Cole, Edwin Louis

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

Hillyer, Robert S.

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

Clarke, J. Richard

You can always tell who the pioneers are because they have arrows in their back and are lying face down in the dirt.

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Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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I cannot give the formula for success, but I can give you the formula of failure -- which is try to please everybody.

Swope, Herbert B.

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If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.

Schuller, Robert H.

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If you've never failed you've never tried.

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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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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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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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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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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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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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Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

Givens, Charles J.

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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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On this path effort never goes to waste, and there is no failure. Even a little effort toward spiritual awareness will protect you from the greatest fear.

Bhagavad Gita

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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

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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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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The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

Eliot, George

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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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

Brown, Les

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Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

Hill, Napoleon

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Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back.

Proverb, Turkish

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

Heller, Joseph

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

Melville, Herman

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect, we will immediately feel overwhelmed.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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

Carl Jung

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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Thought is born of failure.