Motivational Quotes

Failure

Success is 99 percent failure.

- Honda, Soichiro

Best Quotes about Failure

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

If you're willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.

Edward Albee

If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win

Reuther, Walter

The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.

Picabia, Francis

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

The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

Failure is the path of least persistence

When you stand at the edge of the cliff, jump to fly, not to fall.

Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

Quentin Crisp

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

Eliot, George

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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

Proverb, African

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If all this happened to you what paradigm might you develop? How might that paradigm affect you in terms of your life from that point on? What does this tell you about Abe? There are no failures, only lessons to be learned.

Winfrey, Oprah

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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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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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The man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere.

Swinnerton, Frank

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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

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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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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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 surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.

Porsche, Dr.

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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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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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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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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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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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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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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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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

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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

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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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To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.

Viscott, David

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

Seneca

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

Loelia, Duchess

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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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Your failures won't hurt you until you start blaming them on others.