Motivational Quotes

Failure

Some defeats are only installments to victory.

- Riis, Jacob

Best Quotes about Failure

1.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

2.

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

3.

Past failures are guideposts to success.

4.

A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

5.

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

Swinnerton, Frank

6.

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

Lynch, Charles

7.

The moment avoiding failure becomes your motivation, you're down the path of inactivity. You stumble only if you're moving.

Goizueta, Roberto

8.

You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

Cole, Edwin Louis

9.

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

10.

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

Tracy, Brian

11.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

12.

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

13.

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

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

14.

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.

15.

Success is the proper utilization of failure.

16.

Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it's all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you're willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you're willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you've got the potential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.

Sugarman, Joseph

17.

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

18.

Those who have failed miserably are often the first to see God's formula for success.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Phillips, Wendell

22.

Failure does not count. If you accept this, you'll be successful. What causes most people to fail is that after one failure, they'll stop trying.

Burford, Frank

23.

People don't fail, they give up

24.

My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

25.

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

Heller, Joseph

26.

Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

27.

However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

28.

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

James, William

29.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

30.

Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

31.

The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

32.

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

Bartkowski, Steve

33.

Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

34.

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

Kaufman, Herbert

35.

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.

36.

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

37.

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

38.

Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

39.

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

40.

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

Chase, Ilka

41.

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

Korda, Michael

42.

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

43.

Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results.

James, William

44.

Failure is the path of least persistence

45.

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

Randy K. Milholland

46.

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

47.

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

Grayson, David