Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Aoki, Rocky

The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

The moment avoiding failure becomes your motivation, you're down the path of inactivity. You stumble only if you're moving.

Goizueta, Roberto

My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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

South, Bishop Robert

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

10.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

11.

Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than I was and began diverting all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

J.K. Rowling

12.

There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

13.

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

14.

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

Bill Lyon

15.

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

Heller, Joseph

16.

Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.

Strindberg, J. August

17.

Just because you've lost doesn't necessarily mean you've failed.

18.

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

Confucius

19.

Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

Samuel McChord Crothers

20.

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.

21.

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

22.

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

23.

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

Carver, George Washington

24.

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

25.

Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

26.

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

Picabia, Francis

27.

Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results.

James, William

28.

Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.

Pitino, Rick

29.

Misfortunes one can endure -- they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults -- Ah! there is the sting of life.

Wilde, Oscar

30.

Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.

Proverb, African

31.

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

32.

Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

33.

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

34.

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.

35.

Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.

Robbins, Anthony

36.

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

37.

The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall.

38.

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

Miller, Henry

39.

Failure is the path of least persistence

40.

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

41.

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

42.

Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

43.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

44.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

45.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

46.

Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it's all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you're willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you're willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you've got the potential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.

Sugarman, Joseph

47.

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

48.

It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.

Baxter, Anne

49.

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

Edward Albee

50.

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