Motivational Quotes

Failure

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.

Best Quotes about Failure

1.

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

Mckinnon, Dan

2.

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

Picabia, Francis

3.

I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win.

Hopkins, Tom

4.

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

5.

Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

6.

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.

7.

Those who have failed miserably are often the first to see God's formula for success.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

8.

You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.

Williams, A.L.

9.

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

Carver, George Washington

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Grayson, David

13.

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

Porsche, Dr.

14.

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

Proverb

15.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Swinnerton, Frank

19.

Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

20.

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

Eliot, George

21.

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

22.

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

Proverb, German

23.

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

Robbins, Anthony

24.

Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

Hill, Napoleon

25.

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

26.

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

Brown, Les

27.

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

28.

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

Lynch, Charles

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Proverb, African

33.

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

34.

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

35.

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

Wooden, John

36.

My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

37.

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

Winfrey, Oprah

38.

Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

Waitley, Denis

39.

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

Robbins, Anthony

40.

No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

Hill, Napoleon

41.

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

42.

If you're willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.

Edward Albee

43.

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

Heller, Joseph

44.

You can fail so very often. But you are not a failure until you give up.

45.

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

46.

Failure is not the worst thing in the world -- the very worst is not to try

47.

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

South, Bishop Robert

48.

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

Bristol, Claude M.

49.

Success is the proper utilization of failure.

50.

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