Motivational Quotes

Failure

I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

- Edison, Thomas A.

Best Quotes about Failure

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

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

Carver, George Washington

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)

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Clarke, J. Richard

An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

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

All honor to him who shall win the prize. The world has cried for a thousand years. But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears.

Miller, Joaquin

Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

10.

Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

11.

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

12.

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

13.

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

Carl Jung

14.

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

Wooden, John

15.

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

Quentin Crisp

16.

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

Hill, Napoleon

17.

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

18.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

19.

Failure is the path of least persistence

20.

Success is the proper utilization of failure.

21.

People don't fail, they give up

22.

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

Eliot, George

23.

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

Proverb

24.

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

Hopkins, Tom

25.

Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.

Hubbard, Elbert

26.

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

27.

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

Hoffer, Eric

28.

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

29.

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

Salak, John Charles

30.

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

Keats, John

31.

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

32.

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Kaufman, Herbert

33.

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

Waitley, Denis

34.

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

Melville, Herman

35.

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

36.

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

George, William Lloyd

37.

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

38.

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

Reuther, Walter

39.

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.

40.

Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

Winfrey, Oprah

41.

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

Robbins, Anthony

42.

Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

43.

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

James, William

44.

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

45.

I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

Patton, George S.

46.

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

Seneca

47.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

48.

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.