Motivational Quotes

Failure

You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to fall down flatBut to lie there-that's a disgrace.

- Cooke, E. V.

Best Quotes about Failure

1.

There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

2.

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

3.

People don't fail, they give up

4.

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

5.

Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus.

South, Bishop Robert

6.

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

Robbins, Anthony

7.

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

8.

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

9.

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.

10.

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

11.

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

Hopkins, Tom

12.

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

Swinnerton, Frank

13.

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

Miller, Henry

14.

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

15.

Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty.

Neuharth, Al

16.

Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

17.

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

Winfrey, Oprah

18.

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

James, William

19.

Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

20.

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

21.

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

Baxter, Anne

22.

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

Lynch, Charles

23.

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

Viscott, David

24.

People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

Lao-Tzu

25.

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

Aoki, Rocky

26.

Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it's all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you're willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you're willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you've got the potential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.

Sugarman, Joseph

27.

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

28.

Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

Wooden, John

29.

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

30.

When you fall, don't get up empty handed

31.

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

32.

You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to fall down flatBut to lie there-that's a disgrace.

Cooke, E. V.

33.

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not lived at all. In which case, you've failed by default.

J.K. Rowling

34.

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

Eliot, George

35.

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

36.

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

Jones, Lloyd

37.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

38.

Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

Samuel McChord Crothers

39.

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

Chase, Ilka

40.

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

Edward Albee

41.

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

42.

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