Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

1.

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

Quentin Crisp

2.

Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

Fitzgerald, Ella

3.

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

4.

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.

5.

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

6.

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

7.

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

Lynch, Charles

8.

When you fall, don't get up empty handed

9.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

10.

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

Bristol, Claude M.

11.

Success is the proper utilization of failure.

12.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

13.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

14.

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

Randy K. Milholland

15.

The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

16.

We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

Kettering, Charles F.

17.

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

Baxter, Anne

18.

Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.

Proverb, African

19.

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.

20.

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

Hill, Napoleon

21.

Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

22.

It is for want of application, rather than of means that people fail,

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

23.

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

24.

Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

25.

Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty.

Neuharth, Al

26.

People don't fail, they give up

27.

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

28.

I think you actually get a kick out of being disappointed and under-achieving, because it's easier, isn't it? Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.

David Nicholls

29.

On this path effort never goes to waste, and there is no failure. Even a little effort toward spiritual awareness will protect you from the greatest fear.

Bhagavad Gita

30.

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

George, William Lloyd

31.

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

32.

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

33.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

34.

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

Salak, John Charles

35.

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

36.

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

37.

You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.

Williams, A.L.

38.

He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.

Melville, Herman

39.

Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

40.

All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who live together through long years get to know one another's failings; but they also come to know what is worthy of respect and admiration in those they live with and in themselves. If at the end one can say, This man used to the limit the powers that God granted him; he was worthy of love and respect and of the sacrifices of many people, made in order that he might achieve what he deemed to be his task, then that life has been lived well and there are no regrets.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

41.

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

Heller, Joseph

42.

It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.

Baxter, Anne

43.

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

Aoki, Rocky

44.

If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded. You must never regret what might have been. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot see.

Stern, Richard Martin

45.

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

Keats, John

46.

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.

47.

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

48.

My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

49.

He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.

Miller, Arthur

50.

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

Schuller, Robert H.