Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Eliot, George

Best Quotes about Failure

1.

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

2.

It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.

Stein, Ben

3.

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

Randy K. Milholland

4.

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

5.

Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

6.

What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.

Phillips, Wendell

7.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

8.

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

Baxter, Anne

9.

Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

10.

Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

Samuel McChord Crothers

11.

Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

12.

We are all failures -- at least, all the best of us are.

Barrie, Sir James M.

13.

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

14.

Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.

Pitino, Rick

15.

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

Robbins, Anthony

16.

There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the determined endeavor; the unconquerable will. There is no failure for the man who gets up every time he falls, who rebounds like a rubber ball, who persists when everyone else gives up, who pushes on when everyone else turns back.

Marden, Orison Swett

17.

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

18.

In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try.

Viscott, David

19.

Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

20.

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

Kaufman, Herbert

21.

Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

22.

If you've never failed you've never tried.

23.

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

Cole, Edwin Louis

24.

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

George, William Lloyd

25.

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

26.

Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

27.

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

28.

Past failures are guideposts to success.

29.

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.

30.

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

31.

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

32.

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

33.

No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back.

Proverb, Turkish

34.

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

35.

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

Brown, Les

36.

Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes.

Lawes, Lewis E.

37.

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

38.

Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

39.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

40.

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

Jones, Lloyd

41.

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.

42.

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Robbins, Anthony

43.

When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

Mansfield, Katherine

44.

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

45.

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

Lutzer, Erwin W.

46.

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

Bill Lyon

47.

Act as if it were impossible to fail.