Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Hillyer, Robert S.

The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

Roosevelt, Theodore

There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Grayson, David

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

Dahlberg, Edward

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Seneca

13.

There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

Keats, John

14.

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

Cole, Edwin Louis

15.

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

16.

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.

17.

Failure is the path of least persistence

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

21.

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

Ziglar, Zig

22.

Failures are divided into two classes -- those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

Salak, John Charles

23.

The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

Proverb, Chinese

24.

I have not failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that won't work.

Edison, Thomas A.

25.

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

Lutzer, Erwin W.

26.

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

Bill Lyon

27.

Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

28.

Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

29.

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

30.

There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.

Robbins, Anthony

31.

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

Clarke, J. Richard

32.

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

Proverb, African

33.

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

34.

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.

35.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

36.

The moment avoiding failure becomes your motivation, you're down the path of inactivity. You stumble only if you're moving.

Goizueta, Roberto

37.

Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

Korda, Michael

38.

You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

Disney, Walt

39.

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

40.

Every person who has become successful has simply formed the habit of doing things that failures dislike doing and will not do.

41.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

42.

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

43.

The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

44.

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

45.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

46.

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

47.

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

Brown, Les

48.

Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty.

Neuharth, Al