Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

1.

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

2.

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

Seneca

3.

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

Melville, Herman

4.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

5.

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

Proverb, African

6.

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

7.

Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

8.

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

Reuther, Walter

9.

Success is the proper utilization of failure.

10.

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

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

11.

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

12.

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

13.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

14.

We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.

Engstrom, Ted W.

15.

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

16.

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

Grayson, David

17.

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Schuller, Robert H.

18.

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

19.

Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

20.

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

Hillyer, Robert S.

21.

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Waitley, Denis

22.

Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.

Strindberg, J. August

23.

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

24.

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

25.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

26.

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

27.

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

Rohn, Jim

28.

He's no failure. He's not dead yet.

George, William Lloyd

29.

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

30.

I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

Sophocles

31.

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

Baxter, Anne

32.

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.

33.

You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.

Williams, A.L.

34.

Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

35.

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

South, Bishop Robert

36.

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

Loelia, Duchess

37.

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

Randy K. Milholland

38.

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

Robbins, Anthony

39.

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

Waitley, Denis

40.

Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

41.

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.

42.

We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

Kettering, Charles F.

43.

My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

44.

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

45.

Just because you've lost doesn't necessarily mean you've failed.

46.

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

Hill, Napoleon

47.

Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

48.

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

49.

Failure is the path of least persistence

50.

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey