Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Goizueta, Roberto

Best Quotes about Failure

1.

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.

2.

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

3.

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

4.

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.

5.

Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.

Dahlberg, Edward

6.

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

Hillyer, Robert S.

7.

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

Porsche, Dr.

8.

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

Brown, Les

9.

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

Robbins, Anthony

10.

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

Keats, John

11.

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

12.

When you stand at the edge of the cliff, jump to fly, not to fall.

13.

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

14.

Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

15.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

16.

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

Carl Jung

17.

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

Givens, Charles J.

18.

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

Rohn, Jim

19.

You win only if you aren't afraid to lose.

Aoki, Rocky

20.

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

21.

Failure is the path of least persistence

22.

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

Kaufman, Herbert

23.

Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

24.

He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

Heller, Joseph

25.

There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.

Robbins, Anthony

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.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Lynch, Charles

30.

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

Pitino, Rick

31.

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.

32.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Proverb, German

36.

My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

37.

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

38.

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

39.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

40.

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

Proverb, Turkish

41.

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

Carver, George Washington

42.

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

Wooden, John

43.

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

Confucius

44.

Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

45.

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

46.

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

Picabia, Francis

47.

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

48.

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

49.

Success is the proper utilization of failure.

50.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe