Motivational Quotes

Failure

It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.

- Stein, Ben

Best Quotes about Failure

1.

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

Jones, Lloyd

2.

Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

3.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

4.

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

Reuther, Walter

5.

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

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

6.

Many men fail because they quit too soon. They lose faith when the signs are against them. They do not have the courage to hold on, to keep fighting in spite of that which seems insurmountable. If more of us would strike out and attempt the impossible, we very soon would find the truth of that old saying that nothing is impossible... abolish fear and you can accomplish anything you wish.

Welch, Dr. C. E.

7.

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

8.

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

9.

Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus.

South, Bishop Robert

10.

Failures are divided into two classes -- those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

Salak, John Charles

11.

Failure is not the worst thing in the world -- the very worst is not to try

12.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

13.

Past failures are guideposts to success.

14.

Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

Waitley, Denis

15.

Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

16.

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

Hill, Napoleon

17.

We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.

Engstrom, Ted W.

18.

My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

19.

Silicon Valley is a graveyard. Failure is Silicon Valley's greatest strength.

20.

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

21.

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

22.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

23.

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

24.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

25.

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

26.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

27.

The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.

Picabia, Francis

28.

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

29.

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

Keats, John

30.

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

Proverb, German

31.

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

32.

Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

33.

If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.

Schuller, Robert H.

34.

Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

35.

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

36.

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

Sophocles

37.

Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

38.

If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.

Bill Lyon

39.

No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.

Marcus, Greil

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Proverb

43.

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

44.

I cannot give the formula for success, but I can give you the formula of failure -- which is try to please everybody.

Swope, Herbert B.

45.

Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.