Motivational Quotes

Failure

Success is 99 percent failure.

- Honda, Soichiro

Best Quotes about Failure

A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

Skinner, B(urrhus) F(rederic)

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.

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

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

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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

Hubbard, Elbert

He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.

Miller, Arthur

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.

Randy K. Milholland

Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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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.

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The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall.

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

Grayson, David

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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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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Proverb

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I am often confronted by the necessity of standing by one of my empirical selves and relinquishing the rest. Not that I would not. If I could, be... a great athlete and make a million a year, be a wit, a born -- vivant and a lady killer,as well as a philosopher, a philanthropist ... and saint. But the thing is simply impossible. The millionaire's work would run counter to the saint s; the bon-vivant and the philanthropist would trip each other up; the philosopher and the lady killer could not well keep house in the same tenement of clay. Such different characters may conceivably, at the outset of life. Be alike possible for a man. But to make any one of them actual,the rest must more of less be suppressed. So the seeker of his truest, strongest, deepest self must review the list carefully and pick out on which to stake his salvation. All other selves thereupon become unreal, but the fortunes of this self are real. Its failure are real failures, its triumphs real triumphs carrying shame and gladness with them.

James, William

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Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

Walt Whitman

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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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Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

Carver, George Washington

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The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Seneca

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

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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

Heller, Joseph

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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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Accept failure as a normal part of living. View it as part of the process of exploring your world; make a note of its lessons and move on.

Hobson, Tom

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If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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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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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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Those who have failed miserably are often the first to see God's formula for success.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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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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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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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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It is for want of application, rather than of means that people fail,

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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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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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Bill Lyon

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

Ziglar, Zig

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It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Tracy, Brian