Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Waitley, Denis

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.

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

Clarke, J. Richard

3.

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.

4.

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

5.

I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.

Baxter, Anne

6.

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

7.

If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect, we will immediately feel overwhelmed.

Robbins, Anthony

8.

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

Robbins, Anthony

9.

Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

Walt Whitman

10.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

11.

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

Hopkins, Tom

12.

Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

13.

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

14.

Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

15.

If you are bitten by a snake, what's the best thing to do? Remain calm, separate the poison from the rest of your body, suck the poison out. Worst thing to do: get upset, chase and kill snake. Same when someone strikes out at you verbally. Remain calm, don't try to strike back at the other person. Don't let the poison spread throughout your system.

16.

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

17.

When you fall, don't get up empty handed

18.

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

Goizueta, Roberto

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Aoki, Rocky

22.

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

23.

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

Porsche, Dr.

24.

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

Seneca

25.

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

Quentin Crisp

26.

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

Bloch, Arthur

27.

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

Lynch, Charles

28.

Success is the proper utilization of failure.

29.

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

30.

Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

31.

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

Viscott, David

32.

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

33.

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.

34.

Misfortunes one can endure -- they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults -- Ah! there is the sting of life.

Wilde, Oscar

35.

It takes a lot more energy to fail than to succeed, since it takes a lot of concentrated energy to hold on to beliefs that don't work.

Gillies, Jerry

36.

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

37.

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

38.

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

Salak, John Charles

39.

Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

Winfrey, Oprah

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Proverb

43.

The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

44.

Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.

Robbins, Anthony

45.

A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.