Motivational Quotes

Failure

Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.

- J.K. Rowling

Best Quotes about Failure

1.

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

Rohn, Jim

2.

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

Proverb

3.

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

Pitino, Rick

4.

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

5.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

6.

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

Tracy, Brian

7.

Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

8.

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

9.

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

10.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

11.

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

12.

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

13.

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

14.

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

15.

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Schuller, Robert H.

16.

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

Lutzer, Erwin W.

17.

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

18.

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.

19.

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

20.

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

Loelia, Duchess

21.

There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

Keats, John

22.

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

George, William Lloyd

23.

Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.

J.K. Rowling

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

28.

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

29.

Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

30.

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

South, Bishop Robert

31.

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.

32.

We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure all your life.

Gardner, John W.

33.

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

34.

The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

35.

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

Winfrey, Oprah

36.

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

37.

The typical human life seems to be quite unplanned, undirected, unlived, and unsavored. Only those who consciously think about the adventure of living as a matter of making choices among options, which they have found for themselves, ever establish real self-control and live their lives fully.

Albrecht, Karl

38.

Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

39.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

40.

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

41.

Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

Korda, Michael

42.

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

Randy K. Milholland

43.

Failure is the path of least persistence

44.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

45.

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

Eliot, George

46.

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

47.

A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.

Bloch, Arthur

48.

When you fall, don't get up empty handed

49.

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

50.

Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese