Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Failure

1.

If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect, we will immediately feel overwhelmed.

Robbins, Anthony

2.

If you are bitten by a snake, what's the best thing to do? Remain calm, separate the poison from the rest of your body, suck the poison out. Worst thing to do: get upset, chase and kill snake. Same when someone strikes out at you verbally. Remain calm, don't try to strike back at the other person. Don't let the poison spread throughout your system.

3.

Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

4.

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

Heller, Joseph

5.

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

Randy K. Milholland

6.

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

7.

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

8.

They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

Aldrich, Thomas B.

9.

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

Carl Jung

10.

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

Ziglar, Zig

11.

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

Baxter, Anne

12.

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

13.

Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory.

14.

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

Rohn, Jim

15.

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

16.

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.

17.

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

18.

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

Lutzer, Erwin W.

19.

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

20.

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

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.

Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

23.

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

24.

The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

25.

Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

26.

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

27.

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

Phillips, Wendell

28.

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

29.

Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

30.

It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Tracy, Brian

31.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

32.

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

33.

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

34.

Success is the proper utilization of failure.

35.

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

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

36.

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

Seneca

37.

You can't be a winner and be afraid to lose.

Lynch, Charles

38.

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

Bristol, Claude M.

39.

If you are doing your best, you will not have to worry about failure.

Hillyer, Robert S.

40.

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

Winfrey, Oprah

41.

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

42.

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

Salak, John Charles

43.

Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

44.

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

45.

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

Wooden, John

46.

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

Eliot, George

47.

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

Aoki, Rocky

48.

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

Proverb

49.

From time to time, life as a leader can look hopeless. To help you, consider a man who lived through this: Failed in business at age 31. Defeated for the legislature at 32. Again failed in business at 34. Sweetheart died at 35. Had a nervous breakdown at 36. Defeated in election at 38. Defeated for Congress at 43. Defeated for Congress at 46. Defeated for Congress at 48. Defeated for Senate at 55. Defeated for Vice President at 56. Defeated for Senate at 58. Elected President at age 60. This man was Abraham Lincoln.

50.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe