Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.

Strindberg, J. August

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

Eliot, George

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Your failures won't hurt you until you start blaming them on others.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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

A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

10.

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

11.

Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

12.

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

13.

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

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

14.

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

15.

Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

16.

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

17.

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

George, William Lloyd

18.

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

Hoffer, Eric

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Givens, Charles J.

23.

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

Randy K. Milholland

24.

If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win

Reuther, Walter

25.

All honor to him who shall win the prize. The world has cried for a thousand years. But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears.

Miller, Joaquin

26.

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

27.

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

28.

Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

29.

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

30.

Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

31.

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

Quentin Crisp

32.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

33.

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

34.

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

35.

Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

36.

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

37.

The only people who never fail are those who never try.

Chase, Ilka

38.

If you are doing your best, you will not have to worry about failure.

Hillyer, Robert S.

39.

You can always tell who the pioneers are because they have arrows in their back and are lying face down in the dirt.

40.

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

Brown, Les

41.

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

Pitino, Rick

42.

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

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.

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

45.

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

Jones, Lloyd

46.

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

47.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

48.

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

49.