Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Grayson, David

Best Quotes about Failure

1.

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

2.

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

Picabia, Francis

3.

Every person who has become successful has simply formed the habit of doing things that failures dislike doing and will not do.

4.

The typical human life seems to be quite unplanned, undirected, unlived, and unsavored. Only those who consciously think about the adventure of living as a matter of making choices among options, which they have found for themselves, ever establish real self-control and live their lives fully.

Albrecht, Karl

5.

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

6.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

7.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

8.

Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

9.

The man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere.

Swinnerton, Frank

10.

It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.

Baxter, Anne

11.

Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

12.

The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

13.

The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall.

14.

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

Proverb, Turkish

15.

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

James, William

16.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

17.

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

18.

Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times,and what happens when he says, I am a failure.

Hayakawa, S. I.

19.

A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

Skinner, B(urrhus) F(rederic)

20.

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

21.

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

22.

We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

Kettering, Charles F.

23.

Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

24.

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

25.

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

26.

Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

27.

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

Bartkowski, Steve

28.

Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

29.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

30.

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

Robbins, Anthony

31.

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

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

32.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

33.

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

Ziglar, Zig

34.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

35.

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

Heller, Joseph

36.

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

37.

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

Korda, Michael

38.

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

Proverb, German

39.

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

40.

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

41.

Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

42.

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

Bristol, Claude M.

43.

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

Winfrey, Oprah

44.

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.

45.

It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.

Stein, Ben

46.

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

47.

Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

48.

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

Phillips, Wendell

49.

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