Motivational Quotes

Failure

Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty.

- Neuharth, Al

Best Quotes about Failure

1.

On this path effort never goes to waste, and there is no failure. Even a little effort toward spiritual awareness will protect you from the greatest fear.

Bhagavad Gita

2.

When you fall, don't get up empty handed

3.

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

4.

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

Confucius

5.

Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

Waitley, Denis

6.

Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times,and what happens when he says, I am a failure.

Hayakawa, S. I.

7.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Eliot, George

8.

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

Carl Jung

9.

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

10.

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

Proverb, Chinese

11.

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

12.

Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.

Robbins, Anthony

13.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

14.

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

Lynch, Charles

15.

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

Proverb

16.

Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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.

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.

Skinner, B(urrhus) F(rederic)

19.

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

Reuther, Walter

20.

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

21.

Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.

Dahlberg, Edward

22.

Success is the proper utilization of failure.

23.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

24.

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

25.

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

26.

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.

27.

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

Hill, Napoleon

28.

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.

29.

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

Eliot, George

30.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

31.

I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

Sophocles

32.

Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

33.

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

34.

Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

35.

There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no insurmountable barrier except our own inherent weakness of purpose.

Hubbard, Elbert

36.

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

Chase, Ilka

37.

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

38.

Failure is the path of least persistence

39.

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

40.

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

41.

We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free. Tom Robbins Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.

Barton, Bruce

42.

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

Edward Albee

43.

Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

44.

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

Givens, Charles J.

45.

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

South, Bishop Robert

46.

Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

47.

Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

48.

Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than I was and began diverting all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

J.K. Rowling

49.

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

Proverb, African

50.

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