Motivational Quotes

Failure

However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Best Quotes about Failure

1.

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

Proverb

2.

Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results.

James, William

3.

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

Wooden, John

4.

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

Rohn, Jim

5.

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not lived at all. In which case, you've failed by default.

J.K. Rowling

6.

Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

7.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

8.

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

9.

People don't fail, they give up

10.

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

11.

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

Grayson, David

12.

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

13.

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

Tracy, Brian

14.

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

Melville, Herman

15.

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

16.

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

Picabia, Francis

17.

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

18.

He's no failure. He's not dead yet.

George, William Lloyd

19.

If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect, we will immediately feel overwhelmed.

Robbins, Anthony

20.

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.

21.

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

22.

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

Proverb, Chinese

23.

Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

24.

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

25.

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

South, Bishop Robert

26.

I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

Edison, Thomas A.

27.

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

28.

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

Chase, Ilka

29.

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

30.

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

Winfrey, Oprah

31.

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.

32.

Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

Samuel McChord Crothers

33.

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

Brown, Les

34.

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

Lutzer, Erwin W.

35.

Past failures are guideposts to success.

36.

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

37.

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

Lynch, Charles

38.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

39.

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

Robbins, Anthony

40.

I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.

Baxter, Anne

41.

Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory.

42.

An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

43.

Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.

J.K. Rowling

44.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

45.

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

46.

My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

47.

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

Loelia, Duchess

48.

Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

49.

Failure is an event, never a person.