Motivational Quotes

Failure

Failure is the path of least persistence

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Best Quotes about Failure

1.

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

2.

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

Quentin Crisp

3.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

4.

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

5.

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

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

6.

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

Proverb

7.

Just because you've lost doesn't necessarily mean you've failed.

8.

Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

9.

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)

10.

Success is the proper utilization of failure.

11.

Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.

Keats, John

12.

Failure is the path of least persistence

13.

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

14.

I have always felt that although someone may defeat me, and I strike out in a ball game, the pitcher on the particular day was the best player. But I know when I see him again, I'm going to be ready for his curve ball. Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.

Aaron, Hank

15.

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

Robbins, Anthony

16.

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

Edward Albee

17.

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.

18.

Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

19.

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.

20.

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

Keats, John

21.

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Schuller, Robert H.

22.

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

23.

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

Melville, Herman

24.

It is for want of application, rather than of means that people fail,

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

25.

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

26.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

27.

Past failures are guideposts to success.

28.

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

29.

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

30.

From time to time, life as a leader can look hopeless. To help you, consider a man who lived through this: Failed in business at age 31. Defeated for the legislature at 32. Again failed in business at 34. Sweetheart died at 35. Had a nervous breakdown at 36. Defeated in election at 38. Defeated for Congress at 43. Defeated for Congress at 46. Defeated for Congress at 48. Defeated for Senate at 55. Defeated for Vice President at 56. Defeated for Senate at 58. Elected President at age 60. This man was Abraham Lincoln.

31.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

32.

Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

33.

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

Neuharth, Al

34.

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

35.

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

South, Bishop Robert

36.

You must think of failure and defeat as the springboards to new achievements or to the next level of accomplishment.

Brown, Les

37.

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

38.

Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

Samuel McChord Crothers

39.

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

Givens, Charles J.

40.

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

41.

You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.

42.

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

43.

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.

44.

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

45.

We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.

Grayson, David

46.

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

47.

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

Viscott, David

48.

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

Loelia, Duchess

49.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

50.

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