Motivational Quotes

Failure

Success is 99 percent failure.

- Honda, Soichiro

Best Quotes about Failure

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

A hard fall means a high bounce... if you're made of the right material.

Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

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.

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

Quentin Crisp

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

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

Picabia, Francis

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

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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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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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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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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If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded. You must never regret what might have been. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot see.

Stern, Richard Martin

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A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed -- I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.

Clemenceau, Georges

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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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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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

Proverb

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

Wooden, John

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It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not lived at all. In which case, you've failed by default.

J.K. Rowling

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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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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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In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.

Robertson, Frederick W.

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Robbins, Anthony

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A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

Confucius

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Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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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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The man who tries to do something and fails is infinitely better than he who tries to do nothing and succeeds.

Jones, Lloyd

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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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Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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.

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

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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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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You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.

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

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win.

Hopkins, Tom

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Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.

Mckinnon, Dan

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

Bill Lyon

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

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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro