Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

1.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

2.

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.

3.

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

Tracy, Brian

4.

Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

5.

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

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

6.

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

7.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

8.

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

Rohn, Jim

9.

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

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

10.

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

11.

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

12.

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

Hill, Napoleon

13.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

14.

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

15.

Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

16.

He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.

Miller, Arthur

17.

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

Carl Jung

18.

There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

Keats, John

19.

Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

20.

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

21.

Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

22.

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.

23.

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

24.

Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

Ziglar, Zig

25.

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.

26.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

27.

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

Swinnerton, Frank

28.

No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back.

Proverb, Turkish

29.

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

30.

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

Hoffer, Eric

31.

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

32.

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

Confucius

33.

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

Reuther, Walter

34.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

35.

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

36.

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

Edward Albee

37.

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

Neuharth, Al

38.

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

39.

Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

40.

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

Quentin Crisp

41.

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

Porsche, Dr.

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

45.

Misfortunes one can endure -- they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults -- Ah! there is the sting of life.

Wilde, Oscar

46.

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

47.

Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

Wooden, John

48.

Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.

Strindberg, J. August

49.

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

50.

Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese