Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Proverb, African

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

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

Bill Lyon

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

Eliot, George

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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

Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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

Waitley, Denis

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Miller, Henry

14.

I have always felt that although someone may defeat me, and I strike out in a ball game, the pitcher on the particular day was the best player. But I know when I see him again, I'm going to be ready for his curve ball. Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.

Aaron, Hank

15.

It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Tracy, Brian

16.

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

17.

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

Reuther, Walter

18.

There is no such thing as accidental failure. All failure is at least half imposed.

19.

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.

20.

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

Proverb

21.

Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

22.

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

23.

When you fall, don't get up empty handed

24.

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

25.

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

26.

Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

27.

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

28.

Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

29.

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

Carl Jung

30.

Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than I was and began diverting all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

J.K. Rowling

31.

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

32.

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

33.

Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

34.

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

Picabia, Francis

35.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

36.

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

Porsche, Dr.

37.

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

Givens, Charles J.

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.

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

40.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

41.

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

Aoki, Rocky

42.

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

Bristol, Claude M.

43.

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

44.

Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes.

Lawes, Lewis E.

45.

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

46.

Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

47.

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

Melville, Herman

48.

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

49.

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.

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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