Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

1.

When you fall, don't get up empty handed

2.

Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

3.

Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

4.

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

Neuharth, Al

5.

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

Carver, George Washington

6.

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

Randy K. Milholland

7.

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

Eliot, George

8.

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Schuller, Robert H.

9.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

10.

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.

11.

I have always felt that although someone may defeat me, and I strike out in a ball game, the pitcher on the particular day was the best player. But I know when I see him again, I'm going to be ready for his curve ball. Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.

Aaron, Hank

12.

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

Carl Jung

13.

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.

14.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

15.

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

16.

On this path effort never goes to waste, and there is no failure. Even a little effort toward spiritual awareness will protect you from the greatest fear.

Bhagavad Gita

17.

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

Proverb, African

18.

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

Quentin Crisp

19.

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

Bill Lyon

20.

Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

21.

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

Brown, Les

22.

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

23.

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

24.

No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.

Marcus, Greil

25.

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

26.

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

27.

Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

Hill, Napoleon

28.

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

29.

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

Hill, Napoleon

30.

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

Proverb, Turkish

31.

There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.

Baldwin, James

32.

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

Porsche, Dr.

33.

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.

34.

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

35.

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