Motivational Quotes

Failure

Losing is a part of winning.

- Munro, Dick

Best Quotes about Failure

1.

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

2.

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

South, Bishop Robert

3.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

4.

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

Proverb, Turkish

5.

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

6.

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

7.

Success is the proper utilization of failure.

8.

Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

Samuel McChord Crothers

9.

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

10.

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

11.

Silicon Valley is a graveyard. Failure is Silicon Valley's greatest strength.

12.

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

Keats, John

13.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

14.

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not lived at all. In which case, you've failed by default.

J.K. Rowling

15.

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

16.

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

17.

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

18.

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

Neuharth, Al

19.

The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

20.

Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

21.

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

22.

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

Sophocles

23.

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

24.

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

25.

Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

26.

When you fall, don't get up empty handed

27.

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

Hoffer, Eric

28.

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

James, William

29.

In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try.

Viscott, David

30.

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

31.

Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

32.

You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.

Williams, A.L.

33.

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.

34.

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.

35.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

36.

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

37.

Failure is the path of least persistence

38.

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

Clarke, J. Richard

39.

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

40.

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

41.

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

Porsche, Dr.

42.

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

43.

Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

44.

Failure does not count. If you accept this, you'll be successful. What causes most people to fail is that after one failure, they'll stop trying.

Burford, Frank

45.

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.

46.

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.

47.

He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.

Melville, Herman

48.

Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.

Keats, John

49.

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

Korda, Michael

50.

You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.