Motivational Quotes

Failure

Many men fail because they quit too soon. They lose faith when the signs are against them. They do not have the courage to hold on, to keep fighting in spite of that which seems insurmountable. If more of us would strike out and attempt the impossible, we very soon would find the truth of that old saying that nothing is impossible... abolish fear and you can accomplish anything you wish.

- Welch, Dr. C. E.

Best Quotes about Failure

1.

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

2.

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

3.

Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

4.

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

5.

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

6.

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

Reuther, Walter

7.

The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

8.

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.

9.

Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

10.

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

11.

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

Carl Jung

12.

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

James, William

13.

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

Jones, Lloyd

14.

Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

Ziglar, Zig

15.

Past failures are guideposts to success.

16.

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

Randy K. Milholland

17.

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

Seneca

18.

Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes.

Lawes, Lewis E.

19.

When you stand at the edge of the cliff, jump to fly, not to fall.

20.

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

21.

Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

22.

They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

Aldrich, Thomas B.

23.

If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

Quentin Crisp

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Sivananda, Sri Swami

27.

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.

28.

What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.

Phillips, Wendell

29.

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

Hopkins, Tom

30.

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

Miller, Henry

31.

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

32.

Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

33.

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

Clarke, J. Richard

34.

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Robbins, Anthony

35.

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

36.

No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

Hill, Napoleon

37.

Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

Hill, Napoleon

38.

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

39.

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

Eliot, George

40.

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

Proverb, African

41.

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

Bloch, Arthur

42.

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

43.

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

Proverb

44.

Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

Givens, Charles J.

45.

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

Pitino, Rick

46.

There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.

Baldwin, James

47.

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

48.

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

49.

Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

50.

To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.

Viscott, David