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.

Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

2.

Success is the proper utilization of failure.

3.

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

Viscott, David

4.

You can always tell who the pioneers are because they have arrows in their back and are lying face down in the dirt.

5.

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

6.

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

Phillips, Wendell

7.

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

Edward Albee

8.

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

Hill, Napoleon

9.

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

Brown, Les

10.

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

11.

Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

12.

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

Rohn, Jim

13.

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.

14.

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

15.

If you've never failed you've never tried.

16.

We learn from failure much more than from success; we often discover what we will do by finding our what we will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Smiles, Samuel

17.

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

18.

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

Grayson, David

19.

I cannot give the formula for success, but I can give you the formula of failure -- which is try to please everybody.

Swope, Herbert B.

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Givens, Charles J.

23.

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

24.

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

Eliot, George

25.

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

Proverb, African

26.

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

Chase, Ilka

27.

Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

28.

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

George, William Lloyd

29.

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

30.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

31.

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

Heller, Joseph

32.

Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

33.

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

Loelia, Duchess

34.

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

35.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

Hillyer, Robert S.

39.

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

Wooden, John

40.

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

Goizueta, Roberto

41.

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

42.

Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

43.

I think you actually get a kick out of being disappointed and under-achieving, because it's easier, isn't it? Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.

David Nicholls

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Melville, Herman

48.

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

49.

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

South, Bishop Robert