Motivational Quotes

Failure

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

- Nixon, Richard M.

Best Quotes about Failure

1.

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

2.

Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.

Strindberg, J. August

3.

I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

Edison, Thomas A.

4.

If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

5.

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

Eliot, George

6.

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

Proverb, German

7.

The wise man realistically accepts as part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them. He lives on the principle of nothing attempted, nothing gained and is resolved that if he fails he is going to fail while trying to succeed.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

8.

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

9.

When you stand at the edge of the cliff, jump to fly, not to fall.

10.

Failure is the path of least persistence

11.

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.

12.

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

Lynch, Charles

13.

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

14.

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

Heller, Joseph

15.

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

16.

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

Rohn, Jim

17.

I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

Patton, George S.

18.

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

Reuther, Walter

19.

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

20.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

21.

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

Viscott, David

22.

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

23.

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

24.

The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

25.

Many men fail because they quit too soon. They lose faith when the signs are against them. They do not have the courage to hold on, to keep fighting in spite of that which seems insurmountable. If more of us would strike out and attempt the impossible, we very soon would find the truth of that old saying that nothing is impossible... abolish fear and you can accomplish anything you wish.

Welch, Dr. C. E.

26.

Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

27.

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

28.

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

Edward Albee

29.

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

30.

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

Neuharth, Al

31.

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

32.

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

Keats, John

33.

Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.

Robbins, Anthony

34.

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

35.

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

36.

Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.

Mckinnon, Dan

37.

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

38.

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

Proverb, Chinese

39.

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

40.

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

41.

An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

42.

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

Quentin Crisp

43.

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

44.

We are all failures -- at least, all the best of us are.

Barrie, Sir James M.

45.

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

James, William

46.

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

Bill Lyon

47.

My downfall raises me to infinite heights.