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.

Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

2.

Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

3.

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.

4.

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

Hoffer, Eric

5.

If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

6.

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.

7.

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

Rohn, Jim

8.

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

Clarke, J. Richard

9.

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

10.

My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

11.

It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.

Stein, Ben

12.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

13.

Success is the proper utilization of failure.

14.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

15.

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)

16.

I cannot give the formula for success, but I can give you the formula of failure -- which is try to please everybody.

Swope, Herbert B.

17.

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.

18.

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

Eliot, George

19.

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

Lutzer, Erwin W.

20.

Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

21.

Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

22.

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

Melville, Herman

23.

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

George, William Lloyd

24.

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

25.

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

26.

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

Brown, Les

27.

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

28.

The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

29.

Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

30.

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

Goizueta, Roberto

31.

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

Confucius

32.

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

Phillips, Wendell

33.

If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.

Bill Lyon

34.

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

35.

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

Salak, John Charles

36.

There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no insurmountable barrier except our own inherent weakness of purpose.

Hubbard, Elbert

37.

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

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

38.

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

Viscott, David

39.

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

Lynch, Charles

40.

A hard fall means a high bounce... if you're made of the right material.

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.

Every person who has become successful has simply formed the habit of doing things that failures dislike doing and will not do.

43.

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

Bristol, Claude M.

44.

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

Sophocles

45.

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

46.

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

47.

All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who live together through long years get to know one another's failings; but they also come to know what is worthy of respect and admiration in those they live with and in themselves. If at the end one can say, This man used to the limit the powers that God granted him; he was worthy of love and respect and of the sacrifices of many people, made in order that he might achieve what he deemed to be his task, then that life has been lived well and there are no regrets.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

48.

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

Cole, Edwin Louis

49.

We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.

Randy K. Milholland

50.

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

Carl Jung