Motivational Quotes

Failure

It takes a lot more energy to fail than to succeed, since it takes a lot of concentrated energy to hold on to beliefs that don't work.

- Gillies, Jerry

Best Quotes about Failure

1.

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

2.

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.

3.

It takes a lot more energy to fail than to succeed, since it takes a lot of concentrated energy to hold on to beliefs that don't work.

Gillies, Jerry

4.

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

5.

If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

6.

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

7.

When someone is going downhill everyone likes to give them a kick.

Proverb

8.

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

9.

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

10.

If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

Seneca

11.

Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

12.

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

13.

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

Bristol, Claude M.

14.

Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

15.

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

16.

My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

17.

There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.

Robbins, Anthony

18.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

19.

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

Kaufman, Herbert

20.

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

21.

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

Tracy, Brian

22.

Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

Korda, Michael

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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

24.

People don't fail, they give up

25.

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

26.

Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

27.

Just because you've lost doesn't necessarily mean you've failed.

28.

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

Carver, George Washington

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

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We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free. Tom Robbins Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.

Barton, Bruce

33.

Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

34.

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

35.

Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.

Hubbard, Elbert

36.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

37.

Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.

J.K. Rowling

38.

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

39.

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

South, Bishop Robert

40.

Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

Hill, Napoleon

41.

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

42.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

43.

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

Porsche, Dr.

44.

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

45.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

46.

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

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

48.

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

Quentin Crisp

49.

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

Lynch, Charles

50.

The only people who never fail are those who never try.

Chase, Ilka