Motivational Quotes

Failure

Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

- Perot, H. Ross

Best Quotes about Failure

1.

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

Seneca

2.

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

3.

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)

4.

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

Proverb

5.

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

Robbins, Anthony

6.

We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.

Engstrom, Ted W.

7.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

8.

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

Givens, Charles J.

9.

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

Porsche, Dr.

10.

We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.

Merton, Thomas

11.

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

12.

Remember that your failures are the seeds of your most glorious successes. Be sad if you must, but don't despair.

13.

Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

14.

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

Carl Jung

15.

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

Reuther, Walter

16.

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

17.

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

18.

Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

19.

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

20.

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

21.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

22.

Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

23.

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

24.

Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.

John Keats

25.

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

Jones, Lloyd

26.

Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

27.

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

28.

Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than I was and began diverting all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

J.K. Rowling

29.

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.

30.

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

31.

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

Randy K. Milholland

32.

Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

33.

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

34.

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

James, William

35.

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

36.

The man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere.

Swinnerton, Frank

37.

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

38.

Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

Hill, Napoleon

39.

Turn your scars into stars