Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

1.

When you fall, don't get up empty handed

2.

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

Neuharth, Al

3.

We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free. Tom Robbins Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.

Barton, Bruce

4.

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

5.

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

Quentin Crisp

6.

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

7.

Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

8.

To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.

Viscott, David

9.

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

10.

Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

11.

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

12.

You can always tell who the pioneers are because they have arrows in their back and are lying face down in the dirt.

13.

Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

14.

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

15.

Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.

J.K. Rowling

16.

Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

17.

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

18.

The moment avoiding failure becomes your motivation, you're down the path of inactivity. You stumble only if you're moving.

Goizueta, Roberto

19.

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

20.

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

Randy K. Milholland

21.

People don't fail, they give up

22.

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

Edward Albee

23.

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

24.

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

25.

No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.

Marcus, Greil

26.

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

Carl Jung

27.

There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no insurmountable barrier except our own inherent weakness of purpose.

Hubbard, Elbert

28.

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

Robbins, Anthony

29.

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

Givens, Charles J.

30.

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

31.

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

South, Bishop Robert

32.

If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect, we will immediately feel overwhelmed.

Robbins, Anthony

33.

What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.

Phillips, Wendell

34.

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

35.

A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.

Bloch, Arthur

36.

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

37.

Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

38.

Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

39.

Those who have failed miserably are often the first to see God's formula for success.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

40.

Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

41.

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

42.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

43.

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Kaufman, Herbert

44.

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

45.

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

Bill Lyon

46.

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

47.

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.

48.

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

Sophocles

49.

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.

50.

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.