Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Heller, Joseph

Best Quotes about Failure

1.

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

2.

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

3.

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

4.

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

Clarke, J. Richard

5.

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

6.

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.

7.

Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes.

Lawes, Lewis E.

8.

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

Quentin Crisp

9.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

10.

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.

11.

Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

12.

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

Lutzer, Erwin W.

13.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

14.

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

Edward Albee

15.

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

16.

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

Hill, Napoleon

17.

A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.

Bloch, Arthur

18.

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

19.

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

20.

Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

21.

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

22.

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

23.

Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

24.

Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

25.

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

26.

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

Wooden, John

27.

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

Proverb

28.

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

Swinnerton, Frank

29.

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

Randy K. Milholland

30.

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

31.

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

Eliot, George

32.

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

33.

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

34.

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)

35.

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

Heller, Joseph

36.

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

Hopkins, Tom

37.

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

Phillips, Wendell

38.

He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.

Melville, Herman

39.

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

Ziglar, Zig

40.

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

41.

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

Bill Lyon

42.

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

43.

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

Robbins, Anthony

44.

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

45.

We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

Kettering, Charles F.

46.

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

47.

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

48.

Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

49.

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

50.

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