Motivational Quotes

Failure

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.

Best Quotes about Failure

The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.

Miller, Henry

Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

Misfortunes one can endure -- they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults -- Ah! there is the sting of life.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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

Wooden, John

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Phillips, Wendell

I cannot give the formula for success, but I can give you the formula of failure -- which is try to please everybody.

Swope, Herbert B.

10.

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.

11.

Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

Winfrey, Oprah

12.

Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

Walt Whitman

13.

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

14.

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

15.

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

16.

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

17.

When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

Mansfield, Katherine

18.

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

19.

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

Ziglar, Zig

20.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

21.

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

Salak, John Charles

22.

The moment avoiding failure becomes your motivation, you're down the path of inactivity. You stumble only if you're moving.

Goizueta, Roberto

23.

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

James, William

24.

Many men fail because they quit too soon. They lose faith when the signs are against them. They do not have the courage to hold on, to keep fighting in spite of that which seems insurmountable. If more of us would strike out and attempt the impossible, we very soon would find the truth of that old saying that nothing is impossible... abolish fear and you can accomplish anything you wish.

Welch, Dr. C. E.

25.

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

26.

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

27.

We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.

Grayson, David

28.

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

Keats, John

29.

When you stand at the edge of the cliff, jump to fly, not to fall.

30.

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

31.

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

32.

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

33.

There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

34.

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

35.

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

36.

Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

37.

When you fall, don't get up empty handed

38.

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

39.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

40.

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

41.

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

Quentin Crisp

42.

Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

43.

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

44.

There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the determined endeavor; the unconquerable will. There is no failure for the man who gets up every time he falls, who rebounds like a rubber ball, who persists when everyone else gives up, who pushes on when everyone else turns back.

Marden, Orison Swett

45.

Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

46.

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

Eliot, George

47.

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

South, Bishop Robert

48.

If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.