Failure Motivational Quotes

I begin to understand that failure is its own reward. It is in the effort to close the distance between the work imagined and the work achieved wherein it is to be found that the ceaseless labor is the freedom of play, that what's at stake isn't a reflection in the mirror of fame but the escape from the prison of the self. ~ Lewis H. Lapham

The wise man realistically accepts as part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them. He lives on the principle of nothing attempted, nothing gained and is resolved that if he fails he is going to fail while trying to succeed. ~ Bill Vaughan

A refined ability to learn from failure and to grow through losses is necessary to achieve excellence in any human endeavor. ~ Terry Orlick

The time I had waited probably made the difference between success and failure. ~ Anna Neagle

Don't settle for average. Bring your best to the moment. Then, whether it fails or succeeds, at least you know you gave all you had. We need to live the best that's in us. ~ Angela Bassett

Failure is only an experience. We learn from trials and errors. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

When I face the desolate impossibility of writing five hundred pages, a sick sense of failure falls on me, and I know I can never do it. Then gradually, I write one page and then another. One day's work is all I can permit myself to contemplate. ~ John Steinbeck

If you fail at something, it means you have not mastered the art. With persistence practice, you will be master and eventually succeed. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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. ~ John W. Gardner

On occasions when u feel most hopeless, u must take powerful effort. We must persist in face of failure. ~ Dalai Lama

One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure. ~ John W. Gardner

The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to ... failure. ~ John C. Maxwell

Don't just let your career happen to you. You need to be strategic about how you define your leadership journey and where that takes you. ~ Denise Morrison

Dwell on the beauty of sacred-existence. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit. ~ Napoleon Hill

The Church is both organism and organization - Woven together in a beautifully messy dance that stumbles across the stage of a fallen world. ~ Todd Stocker

Cooking requires confident guesswork and improvisation
experimentation and substitution, dealing with failure and uncertainty in a creative way ~ Paul Theroux

Strong minds talk about ideas; weak minds talk about people. ~ Sean Covey

When lifting weights, nothing feels better than achieving a high point on the bench press with no help from your spotter. ~ Robert Cheeke

don't leave without living ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

People may speak and treat you bad. That is who they are. Be careful the way you choose to respond , because that is who you are. ~ De Philosopher DJ Kyos

Being boss is just the first person willing to do something. ~ Bethany Maines

Inner peace is accomplished by understanding and accepting the inevitable contradictions of life - the pain and pleasure, success and failure, joy and sorrow, births and deaths. Problems can teach us to be gracious, humble, and patient. ~ Richard Carlson

It is the accumulative weight of our disciplines and our judgments that leads us to either fortune or failure. ~ Jim Rohn

Talk a walk with me through nature and let's gaze on the marvelous wonders of creation. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The ladder of success is there waiting for you ... you just have to realize it and reach towards and climb as high as you can you will surely be successful. ~ Noor Ahmad

Failure is not an option, winning or learning are the options. ~ Debasish Mridha

The reason most people give up so fast is that they look at how far they still have to go, instead of how far they have come. ~ Anonymous

Here's what a fat person hears when you say bloodwork: "A definite way to prove in black and white that your biggest fears about your body are definitely fucked up and now you're officially a failure to the human race and all the trolls that diagnosed you with arbitrary illnesses were right and now you can't deny it. Fat person, just spare yourself the humiliation, burn the paper, and disappear forever. ~ Jes Baker

In all forms of leadership, whether you are a coach, a CEO, or a parent, there are four words that, when said, can bring out the best in your team, your employees, and your family. I BELIEVE IN YOU. Those four words can mean the difference between a fear of failure and the courage to try. ~ Mike Krzyzewski

The industrialist (your boss, perhaps) demands that everything be proven, efficient, and risk free. The artist seeks none of these. The value of art is in your willingness to stare down the risk and to embrace the void of possible failure. ~ Seth Godin

It is better to not believe a truth than to believe a lie, because this defines yourself too. If you believe a lie that has negative effects, it shows you may have malicious intentions. But if you don't believe a truth that has negative effects, then you may be well-disposed. ~ Maria Karvouni

I think I was very nave early on, but that also meant I didn't know what couldn't be done. ~ Matt Mickiewicz

It is only possible to succeed at second-rate pursuits - like becoming a millionaire or a prime minister, winning a war, seducing beautiful women, flying through the stratosphere, or landing on the moon. First-rate pursuits - involving, as they must, trying to understand what life is about and trying to convey that understanding - inevitably result in a sense of failure. A Napoleon, a Churchill, or a Roosevelt can feel himself to be successful, but never a Socrates, a Pascal, or a Blake. Understanding is forever unattainable. ~ Malcolm Muggeridge

Something will master and something will serve. Either you run the day or the day runs you; either you run the business or the business runs you. ~ Jim Rohn

Let's make a deal, if you don't blame me for your failures I won't take credit for your successes. ~ Donavan Nelson Butler

He that is down needs fear no fall. ~ John Bunyan

It's not enough just to laugh at good fortune and say, 'Enough already.' You have to really mean it
that you have enough. And because you mean it, you take the surplus and you give it away. Similarly, when bad fortune comes, you bear it until it becomes unbearable
your family is hungry, or you can no longer function in your work. And then again you say, 'Enough already,' and you change something. You move; you change careers; you let your spouse make all the decisions. Something. You don't endure the unendurable. ~ Orson Scott Card

A person who Sleeps more, Slips More. ~ Lalit Sharma

You accept failure as a possible outcome of some of the experiments. If you don't get failures, you're not pushing hard enough on the objectives. ~ John Poindexter

The discovery of Viagra was a similar story. Initially, the drug had been tested as a treatment for chest pain (angina), and for that purpose it was a failure. Then patients started reporting a curious side effect. (Imagine those awkward conversations: "Doc, my chest still hurts ... but, um, I've been noticing an effect somewhere else ... ") ~ Chip Heath

Virtues untie the knots that life could sometimes bring our way and they glide us through easily. ~ Omoakhuana Anthonia