Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.

Hubbard, Elbert

All honor to him who shall win the prize. The world has cried for a thousand years. But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears.

Miller, Joaquin

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.

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

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

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

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

There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

Hoffer, Eric

10.

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

Tracy, Brian

11.

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

Mckinnon, Dan

12.

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

13.

If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

14.

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

Hillyer, Robert S.

15.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

16.

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

17.

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

18.

Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

19.

In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try.

Viscott, David

20.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

21.

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

22.

No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.

Bose, Amar Gopal

23.

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

Loelia, Duchess

24.

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

James, William

25.

Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

26.

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

Robbins, Anthony

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Lynch, Charles

30.

Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

31.

Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

Hill, Napoleon

32.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

33.

Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

34.

Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

35.

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

36.

You must think of failure and defeat as the springboards to new achievements or to the next level of accomplishment.

Brown, Les

37.

We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

Kettering, Charles F.

38.

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

Heller, Joseph

39.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Eliot, George

40.

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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.