Motivational Quotes

Failure

The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

- Yogananda, Paramahansa

Best Quotes about Failure

1.

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

2.

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

3.

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

George, William Lloyd

4.

Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

5.

My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

6.

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

Givens, Charles J.

7.

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

8.

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.

9.

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

10.

Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

11.

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

Viscott, David

12.

If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.

Bartkowski, Steve

13.

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

14.

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.

15.

Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

16.

The moment avoiding failure becomes your motivation, you're down the path of inactivity. You stumble only if you're moving.

Goizueta, Roberto

17.

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.

18.

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

19.

You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

Disney, Walt

20.

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

Aoki, Rocky

21.

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

Randy K. Milholland

22.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

23.

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

Hillyer, Robert S.

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

27.

He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.

Melville, Herman

28.

I have not failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that won't work.

Edison, Thomas A.

29.

Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

30.

Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

31.

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

32.

Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

33.

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

34.

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

35.

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

36.

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

Carver, George Washington

37.

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

James, William

38.

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

39.

The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

40.

Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

Walt Whitman

41.

There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the determined endeavor; the unconquerable will. There is no failure for the man who gets up every time he falls, who rebounds like a rubber ball, who persists when everyone else gives up, who pushes on when everyone else turns back.

Marden, Orison Swett

42.

If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.

Bill Lyon

43.

Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

44.

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

45.

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

46.

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

47.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

48.

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

Rohn, Jim

49.

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.

50.

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

Proverb, Turkish