Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Failure

1.

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

Hopkins, Tom

2.

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

3.

Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

4.

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

Grayson, David

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.

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

7.

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.

8.

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

Confucius

9.

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.

10.

Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

11.

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

Aoki, Rocky

12.

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

13.

The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

14.

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

Hill, Napoleon

15.

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

George, William Lloyd

16.

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

17.

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

Sophocles

18.

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

19.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

20.

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

Reuther, Walter

21.

Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

Korda, Michael

22.

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

23.

The man who tries to do something and fails is infinitely better than he who tries to do nothing and succeeds.

Jones, Lloyd

24.

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

Swinnerton, Frank

25.

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

26.

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.

27.

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

Brown, Les

28.

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

29.

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

30.

Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

31.

If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.

Bartkowski, Steve

32.

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

33.

Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

34.

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

Robbins, Anthony

35.

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

Robbins, Anthony

36.

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Kaufman, Herbert

37.

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

38.

We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure all your life.

Gardner, John W.

39.

Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory.

40.

When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

Mansfield, Katherine

41.

Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

42.

The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

43.

Your failures won't hurt you until you start blaming them on others.

44.

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

Heller, Joseph

45.

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

Quentin Crisp

46.

Past failures are guideposts to success.

47.

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

48.

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

Miller, Henry

49.

Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

50.

Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande