Motivational Quotes

Failure

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

- Waitley, Denis

Best Quotes about Failure

1.

The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

2.

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

Edward Albee

3.

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

Bloch, Arthur

4.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

5.

I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.

Hopkins, Tom

6.

People don't fail, they give up

7.

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.

8.

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

Randy K. Milholland

9.

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

10.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

11.

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

12.

Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

Givens, Charles J.

13.

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

Sophocles

14.

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

Pitino, Rick

15.

A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

16.

Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

17.

Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

18.

Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times,and what happens when he says, I am a failure.

Hayakawa, S. I.

19.

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

20.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

21.

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

Proverb, German

22.

They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

Aldrich, Thomas B.

23.

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

24.

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.

25.

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

Robbins, Anthony

26.

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

27.

Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

28.

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

Eliot, George

29.

Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

30.

Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

31.

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

32.

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

33.

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

34.

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

Hill, Napoleon

35.

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Kaufman, Herbert

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Confucius

43.

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.

44.

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

45.

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

Eliot, George

46.

Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

47.

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

48.

In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.

Robertson, Frederick W.

49.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

50.

I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

Patton, George S.