Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

1.

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

2.

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

3.

Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

4.

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

Swinnerton, Frank

5.

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

Sophocles

6.

Past failures are guideposts to success.

7.

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

8.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

9.

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

Miller, Henry

10.

Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

Walt Whitman

11.

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

12.

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

13.

Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

14.

If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

Seneca

15.

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

Clarke, J. Richard

16.

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

Brown, Les

17.

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

18.

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

Proverb

19.

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

Neuharth, Al

20.

When you fall, don't get up empty handed

21.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

22.

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

Proverb, African

23.

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

24.

However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

25.

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

Sivananda, Sri Swami

26.

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

27.

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

Hill, Napoleon

28.

Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

29.

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

30.

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

Proverb, Chinese

31.

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

Hopkins, Tom

32.

I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.

Baxter, Anne

33.

Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

34.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

35.

We learn from failure much more than from success; we often discover what we will do by finding our what we will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Smiles, Samuel

36.

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

37.

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

38.

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

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

39.

There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

Keats, John

40.

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

41.

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

42.

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Kaufman, Herbert

43.

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

Wooden, John

44.

We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free. Tom Robbins Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.

Barton, Bruce

45.

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

46.

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

Grayson, David

47.

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

George, William Lloyd

48.

Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

49.

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.