Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Brown, Les

Best Quotes about Failure

Remember that your failures are the seeds of your most glorious successes. Be sad if you must, but don't despair.

Failure is the path of least persistence

Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet.

Proverb, German

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

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

The wise man realistically accepts as part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them. He lives on the principle of nothing attempted, nothing gained and is resolved that if he fails he is going to fail while trying to succeed.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

Roosevelt, Theodore

Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

People don't fail, they give up

10.

When you fall, don't get up empty handed

11.

Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

12.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

13.

We are all failures -- at least, all the best of us are.

Barrie, Sir James M.

14.

If you're willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.

Edward Albee

15.

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

James, William

16.

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

17.

Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory.

18.

We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.

Grayson, David

19.

In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.

Robertson, Frederick W.

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Cole, Edwin Louis

23.

From time to time, life as a leader can look hopeless. To help you, consider a man who lived through this: Failed in business at age 31. Defeated for the legislature at 32. Again failed in business at 34. Sweetheart died at 35. Had a nervous breakdown at 36. Defeated in election at 38. Defeated for Congress at 43. Defeated for Congress at 46. Defeated for Congress at 48. Defeated for Senate at 55. Defeated for Vice President at 56. Defeated for Senate at 58. Elected President at age 60. This man was Abraham Lincoln.

24.

Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

25.

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

26.

We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

Kettering, Charles F.

27.

Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

Hill, Napoleon

28.

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

29.

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

Swinnerton, Frank

30.

No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back.

Proverb, Turkish

31.

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

Goizueta, Roberto

32.

Anyone seen on a bus after age thirty has been a failure in life.

Loelia, Duchess

33.

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

Carl Jung

34.

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

35.

Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

36.

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

Winfrey, Oprah

37.

He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

Heller, Joseph

38.

Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times,and what happens when he says, I am a failure.

Hayakawa, S. I.

39.

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

40.

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.

41.

Success is the proper utilization of failure.

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Salak, John Charles

45.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

46.

Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

47.

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

48.

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

Baxter, Anne

49.

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

50.

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