Motivational Quotes

Failure

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.

Best Quotes about Failure

1.

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

Rohn, Jim

2.

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

Ziglar, Zig

3.

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

Neuharth, Al

4.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

5.

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

Grayson, David

6.

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

Tracy, Brian

7.

If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.

Bartkowski, Steve

8.

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

9.

Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

10.

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

11.

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

Edward Albee

12.

Anyone seen on a bus after age thirty has been a failure in life.

Loelia, Duchess

13.

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

Bill Lyon

14.

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

15.

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

16.

The only people who never fail are those who never try.

Chase, Ilka

17.

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Waitley, Denis

18.

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.

19.

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

20.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

21.

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

22.

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

Korda, Michael

23.

Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

24.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

25.

No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

Hill, Napoleon

26.

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

27.

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

28.

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

29.

We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

Kettering, Charles F.

30.

Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

Givens, Charles J.

31.

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

Wooden, John

32.

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

33.

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

Proverb, African

34.

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

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.

Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

37.

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

Clarke, J. Richard

38.

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

Sivananda, Sri Swami

39.

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

Reuther, Walter

40.

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

41.

The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

42.

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

Heller, Joseph

43.

Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

44.

Failure is the path of least persistence

45.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

46.

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

Robbins, Anthony

47.

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

Winfrey, Oprah

48.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

49.

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

50.

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Schuller, Robert H.