Motivational Quotes

Failure

Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

- Wooden, John

Best Quotes about Failure

1.

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

Roosevelt, Theodore

2.

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

Aoki, Rocky

3.

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

Waitley, Denis

4.

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

5.

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

Eliot, George

6.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

7.

A hard fall means a high bounce... if you're made of the right material.

8.

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.

9.

Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

10.

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

11.

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

12.

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

Pitino, Rick

13.

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.

Hubbard, Elbert

14.

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

15.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

16.

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

Lutzer, Erwin W.

17.

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

18.

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.

19.

Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

20.

You can fail so very often. But you are not a failure until you give up.

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Confucius

24.

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

Cole, Edwin Louis

25.

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

Neuharth, Al

26.

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

27.

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

Kaufman, Herbert

28.

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

Hoffer, Eric

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Tracy, Brian

32.

My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

33.

No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back.

Proverb, Turkish

34.

Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

Wooden, John

35.

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

Phillips, Wendell

36.

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

37.

The man who tries to do something and fails is infinitely better than he who tries to do nothing and succeeds.

Jones, Lloyd

38.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

39.

Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

40.

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.

41.

Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

42.

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.

43.

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

44.

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

45.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

46.

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

Bloch, Arthur

47.

If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win