Motivational Quotes

Failure

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

- Kennedy, Robert F.

Best Quotes about Failure

1.

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

Robbins, Anthony

2.

Your failures won't hurt you until you start blaming them on others.

3.

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

4.

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

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

5.

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

6.

The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall.

7.

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

8.

The man who tries to do something and fails is infinitely better than he who tries to do nothing and succeeds.

Jones, Lloyd

9.

You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

Cole, Edwin Louis

10.

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

Bristol, Claude M.

11.

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

12.

Just because you've lost doesn't necessarily mean you've failed.

13.

You can always tell who the pioneers are because they have arrows in their back and are lying face down in the dirt.

14.

When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

Mansfield, Katherine

15.

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

Waitley, Denis

16.

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

Randy K. Milholland

17.

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

Quentin Crisp

18.

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)

19.

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

Reuther, Walter

20.

Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

21.

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

22.

A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

Confucius

23.

The moment avoiding failure becomes your motivation, you're down the path of inactivity. You stumble only if you're moving.

Goizueta, Roberto

24.

Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

25.

Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

26.

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

Proverb, Turkish

27.

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

28.

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.

29.

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.

Hubbard, Elbert

30.

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

Winfrey, Oprah

31.

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

32.

If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

33.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

34.

Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

35.

In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.

Robertson, Frederick W.

36.

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

Proverb, German

37.

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

Bloch, Arthur

38.

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

39.

I think you actually get a kick out of being disappointed and under-achieving, because it's easier, isn't it? Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.

David Nicholls

40.

Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

41.

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

42.

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

43.

Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.

Pitino, Rick

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.

There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

Hoffer, Eric

46.

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

Proverb

47.

If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded. You must never regret what might have been. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot see.

Stern, Richard Martin

48.

Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

49.

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

50.

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