Motivational Quotes

Failure

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

- Waitley, Denis

Best Quotes about Failure

1.

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

2.

My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

3.

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

Aoki, Rocky

4.

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

5.

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

6.

From time to time, life as a leader can look hopeless. To help you, consider a man who lived through this: Failed in business at age 31. Defeated for the legislature at 32. Again failed in business at 34. Sweetheart died at 35. Had a nervous breakdown at 36. Defeated in election at 38. Defeated for Congress at 43. Defeated for Congress at 46. Defeated for Congress at 48. Defeated for Senate at 55. Defeated for Vice President at 56. Defeated for Senate at 58. Elected President at age 60. This man was Abraham Lincoln.

7.

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

James, William

8.

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Schuller, Robert H.

9.

Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

10.

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.

11.

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

12.

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

Tracy, Brian

13.

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

14.

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

15.

Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

16.

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

Lynch, Charles

17.

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

Brown, Les

18.

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

Sophocles

19.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

20.

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

21.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

22.

You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

Cole, Edwin Louis

23.

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

24.

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

George, William Lloyd

25.

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

Pitino, Rick

26.

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

Ziglar, Zig

27.

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

28.

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

Bloch, Arthur

29.

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

Eliot, George

30.

Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

31.

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

32.

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

33.

If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

34.

Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

35.

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

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

36.

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.

37.

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

Mckinnon, Dan

38.

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

Bristol, Claude M.

39.

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

40.

Those who have failed miserably are often the first to see God's formula for success.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

41.

Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

42.

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

43.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

47.

We are all failures -- at least, all the best of us are.

Barrie, Sir James M.

48.

It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.

Stein, Ben

49.

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

50.

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

Rohn, Jim