Motivational Quotes

Failure

I cannot give the formula for success, but I can give you the formula of failure -- which is try to please everybody.

- Swope, Herbert B.

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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

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

Quentin Crisp

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Porsche, Dr.

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

Eliot, George

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Proverb

10.

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

Keats, John

11.

Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

12.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

13.

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

Bartkowski, Steve

14.

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

Hill, Napoleon

15.

No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back.

Proverb, Turkish

16.

I think you actually get a kick out of being disappointed and under-achieving, because it's easier, isn't it? Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.

David Nicholls

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Proverb, German

20.

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

21.

If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.

Schuller, Robert H.

22.

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

23.

You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.

Williams, A.L.

24.

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.

25.

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

Proverb, African

26.

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

27.

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.

28.

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

29.

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

South, Bishop Robert

30.

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

Seneca

31.

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

Clarke, J. Richard

32.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

33.

All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who live together through long years get to know one another's failings; but they also come to know what is worthy of respect and admiration in those they live with and in themselves. If at the end one can say, This man used to the limit the powers that God granted him; he was worthy of love and respect and of the sacrifices of many people, made in order that he might achieve what he deemed to be his task, then that life has been lived well and there are no regrets.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

34.

A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

35.

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

Viscott, David

36.

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

37.

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

Picabia, Francis

38.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

39.

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

Carl Jung

40.

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

41.

I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win.

Hopkins, Tom

42.

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

Wooden, John

43.

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.

44.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

45.

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

Melville, Herman

46.

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

Bloch, Arthur

47.

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

48.

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

49.

He's no failure. He's not dead yet.

George, William Lloyd

50.

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