Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

1.

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

2.

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

Tracy, Brian

3.

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.

4.

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

5.

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

6.

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

7.

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

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

8.

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

Brown, Les

9.

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

10.

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

Aoki, Rocky

11.

I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win.

Hopkins, Tom

12.

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

Wooden, John

13.

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

14.

Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

15.

Past failures are guideposts to success.

16.

Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

17.

Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.

Keats, John

18.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

22.

The typical human life seems to be quite unplanned, undirected, unlived, and unsavored. Only those who consciously think about the adventure of living as a matter of making choices among options, which they have found for themselves, ever establish real self-control and live their lives fully.

Albrecht, Karl

23.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

24.

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

Randy K. Milholland

25.

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

26.

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

Confucius

27.

In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.

Robertson, Frederick W.

28.

If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win

Reuther, Walter

29.

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

30.

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.

31.

Failure is the path of least persistence

32.

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

Bristol, Claude M.

33.

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Schuller, Robert H.

34.

No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

Hill, Napoleon

35.

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

36.

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

37.

Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

38.

People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

Lao-Tzu

39.

I have not failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that won't work.

Edison, Thomas A.

40.

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

41.

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

Rohn, Jim

42.

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

Edward Albee

43.

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

44.

If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.

Bill Lyon

45.

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

46.

Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.

Hubbard, Elbert

47.

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

Proverb, German

48.

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

49.

A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.