Motivational Quotes

Failure

It takes a lot more energy to fail than to succeed, since it takes a lot of concentrated energy to hold on to beliefs that don't work.

- Gillies, Jerry

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Sophocles

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

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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

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

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

Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

10.

The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

11.

Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

12.

Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

13.

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

14.

Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

15.

Many men fail because they quit too soon. They lose faith when the signs are against them. They do not have the courage to hold on, to keep fighting in spite of that which seems insurmountable. If more of us would strike out and attempt the impossible, we very soon would find the truth of that old saying that nothing is impossible... abolish fear and you can accomplish anything you wish.

Welch, Dr. C. E.

16.

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

17.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

18.

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

19.

Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

20.

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

Tracy, Brian

21.

If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded. You must never regret what might have been. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot see.

Stern, Richard Martin

22.

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

23.

Failure is the path of least persistence

24.

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

Carl Jung

25.

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

Eliot, George

26.

You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.

Kettering, Charles F.

27.

There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.

Baldwin, James

28.

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

Hill, Napoleon

29.

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

Proverb, Turkish

30.

If you are bitten by a snake, what's the best thing to do? Remain calm, separate the poison from the rest of your body, suck the poison out. Worst thing to do: get upset, chase and kill snake. Same when someone strikes out at you verbally. Remain calm, don't try to strike back at the other person. Don't let the poison spread throughout your system.

31.

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

32.

We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.

Merton, Thomas

33.

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

Pitino, Rick

34.

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

Porsche, Dr.

35.

It takes a lot more energy to fail than to succeed, since it takes a lot of concentrated energy to hold on to beliefs that don't work.

Gillies, Jerry

36.

Misfortunes one can endure -- they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults -- Ah! there is the sting of life.

Wilde, Oscar

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Proverb, African

40.

The man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere.

Swinnerton, Frank

41.

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

42.

The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.

Picabia, Francis

43.

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

Brown, Les

44.

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

Neuharth, Al

45.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

46.

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

47.

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.

48.

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

Carver, George Washington

49.

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

50.

I cannot give the formula for success, but I can give you the formula of failure -- which is try to please everybody.

Swope, Herbert B.