Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Goizueta, Roberto

Best Quotes about Failure

1.

Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

Givens, Charles J.

2.

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

3.

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

4.

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

5.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

6.

Failure is the path of least persistence

7.

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

8.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

9.

You cannot explain failure any more than you can argue with success.

Clarke, J. Richard

10.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

11.

If you are doing your best, you will not have to worry about failure.

Hillyer, Robert S.

12.

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

Aoki, Rocky

13.

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

14.

Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it's all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you're willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you're willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you've got the potential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.

Sugarman, Joseph

15.

The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

16.

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

17.

Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

18.

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.

19.

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

Quentin Crisp

20.

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

21.

Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.

Dahlberg, Edward

22.

Past failures are guideposts to success.

23.

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

Proverb

24.

Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

25.

When you fall, don't get up empty handed

26.

Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.

Mckinnon, Dan

27.

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

George, William Lloyd

28.

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

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

29.

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

30.

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

Cole, Edwin Louis

31.

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

32.

Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.

Robbins, Anthony

33.

Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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.

37.

Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

38.

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

Jones, Lloyd

39.

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

Randy K. Milholland

40.

If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.

Schuller, Robert H.

41.

You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

Disney, Walt

42.

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

Carl Jung

43.

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.

44.

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

Baxter, Anne

45.

Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.

John Keats

46.

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

47.

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

Korda, Michael

48.

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

49.

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry