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

1.

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.

2.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

3.

Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

4.

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

Swinnerton, Frank

5.

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

6.

No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.

Marcus, Greil

7.

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

8.

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

9.

I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.

Hopkins, Tom

10.

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

Tracy, Brian

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.

Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

13.

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

Proverb, German

14.

Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

Hill, Napoleon

15.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

16.

Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

17.

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

18.

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.

19.

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

20.

The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

21.

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

Neuharth, Al

22.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

23.

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

Bill Lyon

24.

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

Chase, Ilka

25.

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

Mckinnon, Dan

26.

Anyone seen on a bus after age thirty has been a failure in life.

Loelia, Duchess

27.

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

28.

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

Quentin Crisp

29.

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

30.

Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

31.

The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

32.

Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

33.

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

34.

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

Eliot, George

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

38.

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

Keats, John

39.

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

40.

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

41.

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

42.

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

43.

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

Goizueta, Roberto

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Carl Jung

47.

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

Korda, Michael

48.

To win you've got to stay in the game.