Motivational Quotes

Failure

We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure all your life.

- Gardner, John W.

Best Quotes about Failure

1.

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

Mckinnon, Dan

2.

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

3.

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

4.

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

5.

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.

6.

People don't fail, they give up

7.

Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

8.

There is no such thing as accidental failure. All failure is at least half imposed.

9.

You can't be a winner and be afraid to lose.

Lynch, Charles

10.

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

Wooden, John

11.

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

Viscott, David

12.

Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

13.

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

Nixon, Richard M.

14.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

15.

If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.

Porsche, Dr.

16.

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.

Miller, Arthur

17.

Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

Givens, Charles J.

18.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

19.

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

20.

The only people who never fail are those who never try.

Chase, Ilka

21.

Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

22.

Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet.

Proverb, German

23.

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

Proverb, African

24.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

25.

You can always tell who the pioneers are because they have arrows in their back and are lying face down in the dirt.

26.

Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.

J.K. Rowling

27.

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

Winfrey, Oprah

28.

You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to fall down flatBut to lie there-that's a disgrace.

Cooke, E. V.

29.

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

Melville, Herman

30.

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

31.

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

Sophocles

32.

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

Eliot, George

33.

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

Neuharth, Al

34.

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

35.

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

Pitino, Rick

36.

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

37.

It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Tracy, Brian

38.

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

39.

To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.

Viscott, David

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Clarke, J. Richard

43.

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

Cole, Edwin Louis

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Brown, Les

47.

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

Carl Jung

48.

A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.

Bloch, Arthur

49.

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