Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Failure

1.

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

2.

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

Givens, Charles J.

3.

Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

4.

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

5.

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

Korda, Michael

6.

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

7.

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)

8.

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

9.

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

Picabia, Francis

10.

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

11.

Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

12.

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

Proverb, Turkish

13.

Many men fail because they quit too soon. They lose faith when the signs are against them. They do not have the courage to hold on, to keep fighting in spite of that which seems insurmountable. If more of us would strike out and attempt the impossible, we very soon would find the truth of that old saying that nothing is impossible... abolish fear and you can accomplish anything you wish.

Welch, Dr. C. E.

14.

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

15.

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

Jones, Lloyd

16.

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

Bartkowski, Steve

17.

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

18.

Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

19.

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

Swinnerton, Frank

20.

You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.

Kettering, Charles F.

21.

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

Phillips, Wendell

22.

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

23.

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

Carl Jung

24.

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.

25.

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

26.

You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to fall down flatBut to lie there-that's a disgrace.

Cooke, E. V.

27.

There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

Hoffer, Eric

28.

People don't fail, they give up

29.

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

Robbins, Anthony

30.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

31.

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

Reuther, Walter

32.

There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

33.

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

Proverb

34.

Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

35.

Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

36.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

37.

Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

38.

Failure is not the worst thing in the world -- the very worst is not to try

39.

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

Aoki, Rocky

40.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

41.

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

42.

The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

43.

Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

47.

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

Proverb, African

48.

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

49.

Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.

Mckinnon, Dan

50.

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