Motivational Quotes

Failure

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

- Kennedy, Robert F.

Best Quotes about Failure

1.

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.

2.

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

Phillips, Wendell

3.

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.

4.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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.

Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

7.

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

Eliot, George

8.

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

9.

Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes.

Lawes, Lewis E.

10.

We are all failures -- at least, all the best of us are.

Barrie, Sir James M.

11.

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

Bristol, Claude M.

12.

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

Quentin Crisp

13.

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

14.

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

15.

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

16.

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

17.

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

Porsche, Dr.

18.

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.

Hubbard, Elbert

19.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

20.

Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

21.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

22.

Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

23.

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

24.

The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

Proverb, Chinese

25.

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

26.

If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

27.

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

28.

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

29.

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

30.

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

Aoki, Rocky

31.

The man who tries to do something and fails is infinitely better than he who tries to do nothing and succeeds.

Jones, Lloyd

32.

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

33.

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

South, Bishop Robert

34.

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

35.

We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.

Randy K. Milholland

36.

He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.

Melville, Herman

37.

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

Seneca

38.

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

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.

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

41.

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

Hill, Napoleon

42.

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

Brown, Les

43.

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

Loelia, Duchess

44.

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