Motivational Quotes

Failure

People don't fail, they give up

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Failure

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

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

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

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

Eliot, George

Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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

Porsche, Dr.

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

10.

Failures are divided into two classes -- those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

Salak, John Charles

11.

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

Carver, George Washington

12.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

13.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

14.

If all this happened to you what paradigm might you develop? How might that paradigm affect you in terms of your life from that point on? What does this tell you about Abe? There are no failures, only lessons to be learned.

Winfrey, Oprah

15.

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

Picabia, Francis

16.

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

Swinnerton, Frank

17.

Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

Hill, Napoleon

18.

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

19.

The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

20.

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

Wooden, John

21.

There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

22.

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

Givens, Charles J.

23.

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

24.

Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

25.

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.

26.

Past failures are guideposts to success.

27.

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

Sophocles

28.

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

29.

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

30.

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.

31.

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

32.

My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

33.

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

34.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

35.

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

Neuharth, Al

36.

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

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

37.

He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.

Miller, Arthur

38.

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

Proverb

39.

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

Cole, Edwin Louis

40.

There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the determined endeavor; the unconquerable will. There is no failure for the man who gets up every time he falls, who rebounds like a rubber ball, who persists when everyone else gives up, who pushes on when everyone else turns back.

Marden, Orison Swett

41.

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

42.

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

Goizueta, Roberto

43.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

44.

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

Hoffer, Eric

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

50.

The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake