Motivational Quotes

Failure

To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.

- Viscott, David

Best Quotes about Failure

1.

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

Randy K. Milholland

2.

Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

3.

Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

4.

There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

5.

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

6.

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

7.

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

Brown, Les

8.

Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

9.

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

Bristol, Claude M.

10.

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

11.

Failure is the path of least persistence

12.

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

Hoffer, Eric

13.

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.

14.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

15.

My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

16.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

17.

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

18.

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

19.

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

20.

Failures are divided into two classes -- those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

Salak, John Charles

21.

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

Bloch, Arthur

22.

Past failures are guideposts to success.

23.

Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

24.

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

Quentin Crisp

25.

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

Lynch, Charles

26.

We learn from failure much more than from success; we often discover what we will do by finding our what we will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Smiles, Samuel

27.

Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

28.

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

Hill, Napoleon

29.

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

Bill Lyon

30.

No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

Hill, Napoleon

31.

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.

32.

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

South, Bishop Robert

33.

Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

34.

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

35.

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

Chase, Ilka

36.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

37.

We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.

Merton, Thomas

38.

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

39.

Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

Hill, Napoleon

40.

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

41.

No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.

Marcus, Greil

42.

You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to fall down flatBut to lie there-that's a disgrace.

Cooke, E. V.

43.

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

Viscott, David

44.

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

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

45.

There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

Keats, John

46.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory.

48.

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

49.

Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

Ziglar, Zig

50.

Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

Korda, Michael