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.

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

2.

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

Hopkins, Tom

3.

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

Carver, George Washington

4.

They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

Aldrich, Thomas B.

5.

My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

6.

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Waitley, Denis

7.

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

Reuther, Walter

8.

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.

9.

Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

10.

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

11.

A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

Confucius

12.

There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

13.

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

14.

Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times,and what happens when he says, I am a failure.

Hayakawa, S. I.

15.

Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

16.

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

Neuharth, Al

17.

Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

18.

There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

19.

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

Roosevelt, Theodore

20.

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

Picabia, Francis

21.

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.

22.

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

James, William

23.

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

Hill, Napoleon

24.

Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

25.

If you're willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.

Edward Albee

26.

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

27.

Past failures are guideposts to success.

28.

If you are doing your best, you will not have to worry about failure.

Hillyer, Robert S.

29.

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

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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.

Failure is the path of least persistence

32.

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

Seneca

33.

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

Loelia, Duchess

34.

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

Lynch, Charles

35.

We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.

Grayson, David

36.

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

37.

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

38.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

39.

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.

40.

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

41.

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

Bristol, Claude M.

42.

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

Tracy, Brian

43.

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

44.

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

Winfrey, Oprah

45.

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

46.

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

47.

Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

48.

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

Goizueta, Roberto

49.

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

Wooden, John

50.

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