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.

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

Loelia, Duchess

2.

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

Wooden, John

3.

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.

4.

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

5.

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

Hillyer, Robert S.

6.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

7.

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

Bartkowski, Steve

8.

Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

9.

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

10.

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

11.

If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

12.

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

13.

You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

Disney, Walt

14.

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

15.

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

16.

A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed -- I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.

Clemenceau, Georges

17.

Accept failure as a normal part of living. View it as part of the process of exploring your world; make a note of its lessons and move on.

Hobson, Tom

18.

When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

Mansfield, Katherine

19.

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.

20.

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.

21.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

22.

You win only if you aren't afraid to lose.

Aoki, Rocky

23.

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

24.

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

25.

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

26.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

27.

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.

28.

Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

29.

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

Porsche, Dr.

30.

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

Edward Albee

31.

If you are bitten by a snake, what's the best thing to do? Remain calm, separate the poison from the rest of your body, suck the poison out. Worst thing to do: get upset, chase and kill snake. Same when someone strikes out at you verbally. Remain calm, don't try to strike back at the other person. Don't let the poison spread throughout your system.

32.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

33.

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

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

34.

Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

35.

The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

36.

You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.

Williams, A.L.

37.

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

Heller, Joseph

38.

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

39.

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

Randy K. Milholland

40.

Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

41.

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

Proverb, Turkish

42.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

43.

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

44.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

45.

Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

46.

People don't fail, they give up

47.

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

48.

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

Clarke, J. Richard

49.

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

Lutzer, Erwin W.

50.

I think you actually get a kick out of being disappointed and under-achieving, because it's easier, isn't it? Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.

David Nicholls