Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

1.

Your failures won't hurt you until you start blaming them on others.

2.

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

Grayson, David

3.

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

Proverb, Turkish

4.

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

5.

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

Neuharth, Al

6.

In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try.

Viscott, David

7.

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

Reuther, Walter

8.

There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.

Baldwin, James

9.

You can always tell who the pioneers are because they have arrows in their back and are lying face down in the dirt.

10.

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

11.

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

Lynch, Charles

12.

Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

13.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

14.

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

15.

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

16.

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

Pitino, Rick

17.

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

Proverb, African

18.

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

Heller, Joseph

19.

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

Brown, Les

20.

Remember that your failures are the seeds of your most glorious successes. Be sad if you must, but don't despair.

21.

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

Jones, Lloyd

22.

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

23.

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

Proverb, German

24.

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

Nixon, Richard M.

25.

Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

26.

The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.

Picabia, Francis

27.

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.

28.

Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

29.

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

Wooden, John

30.

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

Keats, John

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.

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

Baxter, Anne

34.

The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

Proverb, Chinese

35.

Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

36.

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

37.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

Phillips, Wendell

41.

If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.

Bill Lyon

42.

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

43.

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

Cole, Edwin Louis

44.

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

45.

If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.

Bartkowski, Steve

46.

Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.