Motivational Quotes

Failure

The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.

- Miller, Henry

Best Quotes about Failure

1.

Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

Hill, Napoleon

2.

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

Hillyer, Robert S.

3.

Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

4.

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

Loelia, Duchess

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.

You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.

Kettering, Charles F.

7.

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

Givens, Charles J.

8.

Past failures are guideposts to success.

9.

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

Quentin Crisp

10.

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

11.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

12.

Every person who has become successful has simply formed the habit of doing things that failures dislike doing and will not do.

13.

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

14.

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

15.

Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

16.

Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

17.

Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.

Pitino, Rick

18.

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

Aoki, Rocky

19.

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

20.

Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

21.

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

22.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

23.

The man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere.

Swinnerton, Frank

24.

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

Edward Albee

25.

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

Proverb, African

26.

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

Rohn, Jim

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Eliot, George

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Porsche, Dr.

33.

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

34.

Failures are divided into two classes -- those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

Salak, John Charles

35.

Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

36.

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

Randy K. Milholland

37.

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

38.

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Robbins, Anthony

39.

The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.

Miller, Henry

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

43.

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

Lynch, Charles

44.

Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

45.

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

Heller, Joseph

46.

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

47.

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

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

48.

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.

49.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

50.

They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.