Motivational Quotes

Failure

Accept failure as a normal part of living. View it as part of the process of exploring your world; make a note of its lessons and move on.

- Hobson, Tom

Best Quotes about Failure

1.

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

Quentin Crisp

2.

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.

3.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

4.

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

5.

The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

6.

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

Ziglar, Zig

7.

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

Korda, Michael

8.

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

Wooden, John

9.

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

10.

I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

Sophocles

11.

You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.

Kettering, Charles F.

12.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

13.

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

14.

Failures are divided into two classes -- those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

Salak, John Charles

15.

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.

16.

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

17.

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

18.

The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.

Miller, Henry

19.

Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty.

Neuharth, Al

20.

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

21.

There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

22.

Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

23.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

24.

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

Proverb

25.

Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

26.

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

27.

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

Aoki, Rocky

28.

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

29.

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

30.

Anyone seen on a bus after age thirty has been a failure in life.

Loelia, Duchess

31.

There is no such thing as accidental failure. All failure is at least half imposed.

32.

The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

Proverb, Chinese

33.

Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

34.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

35.

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

George, William Lloyd

36.

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

Bristol, Claude M.

37.

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

38.

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.

39.

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

Proverb, German

40.

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

41.

If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win

Reuther, Walter

42.

There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

43.

My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

44.

Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

45.

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

46.

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

Eliot, George

47.

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

South, Bishop Robert

48.

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

49.

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

50.

Accept failure as a normal part of living. View it as part of the process of exploring your world; make a note of its lessons and move on.

Hobson, Tom