Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Failure

1.

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

Proverb, African

2.

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

3.

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

Wooden, John

4.

The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.

Miller, Henry

5.

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

6.

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

George, William Lloyd

7.

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

8.

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.

9.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

10.

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

11.

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

Bristol, Claude M.

12.

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

13.

You can't be a winner and be afraid to lose.

Lynch, Charles

14.

Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it's all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you're willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you're willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you've got the potential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.

Sugarman, Joseph

15.

You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

Disney, Walt

16.

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not lived at all. In which case, you've failed by default.

J.K. Rowling

17.

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

Lutzer, Erwin W.

18.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Eliot, George

19.

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

Bloch, Arthur

20.

The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

21.

Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

Waitley, Denis

22.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

23.

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

Jones, Lloyd

24.

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

Picabia, Francis

25.

Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

26.

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

27.

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.

28.

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

Cole, Edwin Louis

29.

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

Rohn, Jim

30.

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

Phillips, Wendell

31.

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

32.

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

Hoffer, Eric

33.

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.

34.

Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.

Pitino, Rick

35.

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

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

36.

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

Roosevelt, Theodore

37.

Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

38.

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

39.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

40.

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

Mckinnon, Dan

41.

Remember that your failures are the seeds of your most glorious successes. Be sad if you must, but don't despair.

42.

Success is the proper utilization of failure.

43.

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Waitley, Denis

44.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

45.

People don't fail, they give up

46.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

Melville, Herman

50.

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