Motivational Quotes

Failure

If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Failure

1.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

2.

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

Reuther, Walter

3.

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

4.

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

Bristol, Claude M.

5.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

6.

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

Carl Jung

7.

Your failures won't hurt you until you start blaming them on others.

8.

Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

9.

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

Sivananda, Sri Swami

10.

Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.

Dahlberg, Edward

11.

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

12.

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

13.

Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

14.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

18.

It takes a lot more energy to fail than to succeed, since it takes a lot of concentrated energy to hold on to beliefs that don't work.

Gillies, Jerry

19.

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

20.

If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

Seneca

21.

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

22.

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

Baxter, Anne

23.

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

24.

It is for want of application, rather than of means that people fail,

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

25.

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

26.

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

Porsche, Dr.

27.

The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

28.

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

29.

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

30.

The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

31.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Korda, Michael

35.

Failure is the path of least persistence

36.

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

37.

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

38.

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

Sophocles

39.

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

George, William Lloyd

40.

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

41.

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

Clarke, J. Richard

42.

However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

43.

Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results.

James, William

44.

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

45.

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

Proverb, Turkish

46.

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

Keats, John

47.

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

48.

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

49.

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

50.

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

Robbins, Anthony