Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Porsche, Dr.

Best Quotes about Failure

1.

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

2.

On this path effort never goes to waste, and there is no failure. Even a little effort toward spiritual awareness will protect you from the greatest fear.

Bhagavad Gita

3.

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

Melville, Herman

4.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

5.

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.

6.

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

7.

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

8.

You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

Cole, Edwin Louis

9.

Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

10.

Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

11.

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

Neuharth, Al

12.

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.

13.

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

Tracy, Brian

14.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

15.

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

Randy K. Milholland

16.

Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

Fitzgerald, Ella

17.

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

18.

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

Givens, Charles J.

19.

Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.

Dahlberg, Edward

20.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

21.

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

Robbins, Anthony

22.

Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

23.

Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

24.

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

Rohn, Jim

25.

Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

29.

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

Hillyer, Robert S.

30.

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

Baxter, Anne

31.

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

32.

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

Eliot, George

33.

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

Aoki, Rocky

34.

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

Edward Albee

35.

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

Proverb, Chinese

36.

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

37.

Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

38.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

42.

The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.

Picabia, Francis

43.

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

44.

Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

45.

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

Bristol, Claude M.

46.

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

47.

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

Keats, John

48.

It takes a lot more energy to fail than to succeed, since it takes a lot of concentrated energy to hold on to beliefs that don't work.

Gillies, Jerry

49.

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

50.

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