Motivational Quotes

Failure

Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.

- John Keats

Best Quotes about Failure

1.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

2.

Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

3.

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

4.

Accept failure as a normal part of living. View it as part of the process of exploring your world; make a note of its lessons and move on.

Hobson, Tom

5.

There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no insurmountable barrier except our own inherent weakness of purpose.

Hubbard, Elbert

6.

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

7.

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

Proverb, Turkish

8.

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

Cole, Edwin Louis

9.

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

Kaufman, Herbert

10.

What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.

Phillips, Wendell

11.

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

Seneca

12.

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

13.

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

14.

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

Eliot, George

15.

Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

16.

Silicon Valley is a graveyard. Failure is Silicon Valley's greatest strength.

17.

Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

18.

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

Hillyer, Robert S.

19.

Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

20.

Those who have failed miserably are often the first to see God's formula for success.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

21.

Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus.

South, Bishop Robert

22.

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

Goizueta, Roberto

23.

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

24.

The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

25.

When someone is going downhill everyone likes to give them a kick.

Proverb

26.

You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.

27.

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

28.

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

Confucius

29.

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

Lynch, Charles

30.

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

Wooden, John

31.

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

Rohn, Jim

32.

Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

33.

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

Viscott, David

34.

A hard fall means a high bounce... if you're made of the right material.

35.

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

36.

Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

37.

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

38.

Just because you've lost doesn't necessarily mean you've failed.

39.

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

40.

We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

Kettering, Charles F.

41.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

42.

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

Carl Jung

43.

The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

44.

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

Brown, Les

45.

From time to time, life as a leader can look hopeless. To help you, consider a man who lived through this: Failed in business at age 31. Defeated for the legislature at 32. Again failed in business at 34. Sweetheart died at 35. Had a nervous breakdown at 36. Defeated in election at 38. Defeated for Congress at 43. Defeated for Congress at 46. Defeated for Congress at 48. Defeated for Senate at 55. Defeated for Vice President at 56. Defeated for Senate at 58. Elected President at age 60. This man was Abraham Lincoln.

46.

It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.

Baxter, Anne

47.

We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

Kettering, Charles F.

48.

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

49.

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

50.

Failure does not count. If you accept this, you'll be successful. What causes most people to fail is that after one failure, they'll stop trying.

Burford, Frank