Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Pitino, Rick

Best Quotes about Failure

1.

We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

Kettering, Charles F.

2.

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

3.

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

Hillyer, Robert S.

4.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

5.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

6.

Accept failure as a normal part of living. View it as part of the process of exploring your world; make a note of its lessons and move on.

Hobson, Tom

7.

The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

8.

Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

9.

People don't fail, they give up

10.

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

Miller, Henry

11.

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

12.

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

Bristol, Claude M.

13.

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

Chase, Ilka

14.

Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

15.

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

Phillips, Wendell

16.

You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to fall down flatBut to lie there-that's a disgrace.

Cooke, E. V.

17.

There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

Hoffer, Eric

18.

If you are bitten by a snake, what's the best thing to do? Remain calm, separate the poison from the rest of your body, suck the poison out. Worst thing to do: get upset, chase and kill snake. Same when someone strikes out at you verbally. Remain calm, don't try to strike back at the other person. Don't let the poison spread throughout your system.

19.

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

Winfrey, Oprah

20.

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

21.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

22.

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

Robbins, Anthony

23.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

24.

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

25.

Past failures are guideposts to success.

26.

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

27.

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

Neuharth, Al

28.

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

Lynch, Charles

29.

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.

30.

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

Proverb, German

31.

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

32.

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

33.

Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

34.

Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

35.

No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.

Bose, Amar Gopal

36.

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

37.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

38.

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

Quentin Crisp

39.

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

40.

Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

41.

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

Hopkins, Tom

42.

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

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

43.

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

Viscott, David

44.

Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

45.

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

46.

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

47.

Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.

John Keats

48.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

49.

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

50.

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