Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Failure

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

People don't fail, they give up

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

We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

Kettering, Charles F.

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.

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

Proverb

If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

Seneca

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

Randy K. Milholland

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

South, Bishop Robert

10.

I am often confronted by the necessity of standing by one of my empirical selves and relinquishing the rest. Not that I would not. If I could, be... a great athlete and make a million a year, be a wit, a born -- vivant and a lady killer,as well as a philosopher, a philanthropist ... and saint. But the thing is simply impossible. The millionaire's work would run counter to the saint s; the bon-vivant and the philanthropist would trip each other up; the philosopher and the lady killer could not well keep house in the same tenement of clay. Such different characters may conceivably, at the outset of life. Be alike possible for a man. But to make any one of them actual,the rest must more of less be suppressed. So the seeker of his truest, strongest, deepest self must review the list carefully and pick out on which to stake his salvation. All other selves thereupon become unreal, but the fortunes of this self are real. Its failure are real failures, its triumphs real triumphs carrying shame and gladness with them.

James, William

11.

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

Quentin Crisp

12.

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

Picabia, Francis

13.

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

Reuther, Walter

14.

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

15.

Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

16.

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

17.

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

Lynch, Charles

18.

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

19.

It takes a lot more energy to fail than to succeed, since it takes a lot of concentrated energy to hold on to beliefs that don't work.

Gillies, Jerry

20.

Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.

Keats, John

21.

Failure is the path of least persistence

22.

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

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

23.

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

24.

A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.

Bloch, Arthur

25.

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

26.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

27.

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

Neuharth, Al

28.

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

Loelia, Duchess

29.

The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.

Miller, Henry

30.

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

Swinnerton, Frank

31.

We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.

Grayson, David

32.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

33.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

34.

You can always tell who the pioneers are because they have arrows in their back and are lying face down in the dirt.

35.

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

Wooden, John

36.

People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

Lao-Tzu

37.

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

38.

Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.

John Keats

39.

Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

43.

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

Jones, Lloyd

44.

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

Clarke, J. Richard

45.

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

46.

Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.

Mckinnon, Dan

47.

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

48.

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.

49.

Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

50.

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.