Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

1.

If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect, we will immediately feel overwhelmed.

Robbins, Anthony

2.

Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

3.

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

Edward Albee

4.

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

Proverb

5.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

6.

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

Chase, Ilka

7.

I have not failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that won't work.

Edison, Thomas A.

8.

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

Lynch, Charles

9.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

10.

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.

11.

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

Randy K. Milholland

12.

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

Hopkins, Tom

13.

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

14.

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

Porsche, Dr.

15.

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

Confucius

16.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

17.

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

Viscott, David

18.

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

George, William Lloyd

19.

Anyone seen on a bus after age thirty has been a failure in life.

Loelia, Duchess

20.

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

Heller, Joseph

21.

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

Ziglar, Zig

22.

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

Cole, Edwin Louis

23.

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

Proverb, Turkish

24.

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

Bartkowski, Steve

25.

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

Rohn, Jim

26.

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

Hillyer, Robert S.

27.

Success is the proper utilization of failure.

28.

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

29.

Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

30.

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

Kaufman, Herbert

31.

Remember that your failures are the seeds of your most glorious successes. Be sad if you must, but don't despair.

32.

The wise man realistically accepts as part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them. He lives on the principle of nothing attempted, nothing gained and is resolved that if he fails he is going to fail while trying to succeed.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

33.

Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

Fitzgerald, Ella

34.

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

35.

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

36.

I have always felt that although someone may defeat me, and I strike out in a ball game, the pitcher on the particular day was the best player. But I know when I see him again, I'm going to be ready for his curve ball. Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.

Aaron, Hank

37.

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

Korda, Michael

38.

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

39.

Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

40.

The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

41.

The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

42.

We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

Kettering, Charles F.

43.

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

Winfrey, Oprah

44.

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

45.

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

Givens, Charles J.

46.

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.