Motivational Quotes

Failure

Success is the proper utilization of failure.

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Loelia, Duchess

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

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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

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

South, Bishop Robert

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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

Dahlberg, Edward

An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

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

10.

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

11.

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

Clarke, J. Richard

12.

Failure does not count. If you accept this, you'll be successful. What causes most people to fail is that after one failure, they'll stop trying.

Burford, Frank

13.

Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

14.

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.

15.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

16.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

17.

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.

18.

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

19.

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.

20.

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

George, William Lloyd

21.

Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

22.

Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet.

Proverb, German

23.

There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.

Baldwin, James

24.

You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

29.

Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

30.

Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

31.

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

Porsche, Dr.

32.

I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

Sophocles

33.

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

34.

To win you've got to stay in the game.

Bristol, Claude M.

35.

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

36.

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

Proverb

37.

Failure is the path of least persistence

38.

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

Goizueta, Roberto

39.

My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

40.

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

41.

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

Phillips, Wendell

42.

The only people who never fail are those who never try.

Chase, Ilka

43.

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

44.

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

Pitino, Rick

45.

If all this happened to you what paradigm might you develop? How might that paradigm affect you in terms of your life from that point on? What does this tell you about Abe? There are no failures, only lessons to be learned.

Winfrey, Oprah

46.

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

Baxter, Anne

47.

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

Eliot, George

48.

Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

49.

Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

Waitley, Denis

50.

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