Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Tracy, Brian

Best Quotes about Failure

1.

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

Bartkowski, Steve

2.

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

Phillips, Wendell

3.

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

4.

If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded. You must never regret what might have been. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot see.

Stern, Richard Martin

5.

We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free. Tom Robbins Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.

Barton, Bruce

6.

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.

7.

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.

8.

Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

9.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

10.

Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

11.

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

12.

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

South, Bishop Robert

13.

I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.

Baxter, Anne

14.

Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

15.

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

Picabia, Francis

16.

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.

17.

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

18.

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

Heller, Joseph

19.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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.

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

Loelia, Duchess

22.

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

Cole, Edwin Louis

23.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

24.

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

Kaufman, Herbert

25.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

26.

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

Swinnerton, Frank

27.

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

28.

Failure is the path of least persistence

29.

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

30.

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

31.

Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

32.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

33.

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

Reuther, Walter

34.

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

35.

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

36.

Every person who has become successful has simply formed the habit of doing things that failures dislike doing and will not do.

37.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

38.

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

George, William Lloyd

39.

You cannot explain failure any more than you can argue with success.

Clarke, J. Richard

40.

Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

41.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

42.

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

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

43.

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

Hopkins, Tom

44.

The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

45.

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

46.

No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

Hill, Napoleon

47.

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

Randy K. Milholland

48.

Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

49.

You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.

Kettering, Charles F.

50.

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

Wooden, John