Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Keats, John

Best Quotes about Failure

1.

The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

Proverb, Chinese

2.

We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.

Engstrom, Ted W.

3.

Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

4.

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

Hopkins, Tom

5.

You cannot explain failure any more than you can argue with success.

Clarke, J. Richard

6.

Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

7.

We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.

Merton, Thomas

8.

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.

9.

I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

Sophocles

10.

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

Proverb, African

11.

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

12.

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

Robbins, Anthony

13.

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

Picabia, Francis

14.

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

Hillyer, Robert S.

15.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

16.

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

17.

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

18.

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

19.

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

20.

The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

21.

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.

22.

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.

23.

Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

24.

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

25.

Accept failure as a normal part of living. View it as part of the process of exploring your world; make a note of its lessons and move on.

Hobson, Tom

26.

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.

27.

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

28.

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

29.

A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

Skinner, B(urrhus) F(rederic)

30.

Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.

John Keats

31.

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

32.

Even a tombstone says good things about a fellow who's down.

33.

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

34.

You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.

Williams, A.L.

35.

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

36.

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

Carver, George Washington

37.

Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.

Mckinnon, Dan

38.

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

39.

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

Keats, John

40.

Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

41.

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

Heller, Joseph

42.

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

43.

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.

44.

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

45.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

46.

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

47.

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

48.

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

Swinnerton, Frank

49.

Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

50.

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

Wooden, John