Failure Motivation Quotes & Sayings

If you Don't where you going, look back and see where you have come from — Jason Aites

Those who envy the success of others are normally ignorant to the sacrifices, failures, and dedication that it took for them to get there. — Noel DeJesus

Push, push. Push harder! — Lailah Gifty Akita

There is no failure, unless we fail to begin or we fail to continue. — Christopher Babson

HOPES may vanish; DREAMS never die. — Vikrmn

In 1972, the psychologist Irving Janis defined groupthink as, "a mode of thinking that people engage in when they are deeply involved in a cohesive in-group, when the members' strivings for unanimity override their motivation to realistically appraise alternative courses of action." Groupthink most commonly affects homogenous, close-knit communities that are overly insulated from internal and external criticism, and that perceive themselves as different from or under attack by outsiders. Its symptoms include censorship of dissent, rejection or rationalization of criticisms, the conviction of moral superiority, and the demonization of those who hold opposing beliefs. It typically leads to the incomplete or inaccurate assessment of information, the failure to seriously consider other possible options, a tendency to make rash decisions, and the refusal to reevaluate or alter those decisions once they've been made. — Kathryn Schulz

The future is bright like the morning sun. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Don't give up on your dreams. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I will never be a loser. Never. Because I will never stop trying to be better. — Toni Sorenson

So when someone would love to see you fail, forgive them, and draw upon that motivation to succeed. — Donald L. Hicks

Without adventure into the unknown, we fail to lay the foundation for any success. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The world needs peak performers like you to set the example of how to accept failures, dust off, and move on with your head held high. Whether you face a business failure, a divorce, a missed opportunity, a lost sale, a fumbled business presentation, or all of the above, own it, learn from it, and envision a successful future. — Michelle McCullough

Everyone is really afraid of getting out there and not being good. That's the challenge: To be afraid and know people are staring at you and know you might not do all that well, but you do it anyway. What singles out the successful athlete from the ones who never make it past a plateau, it that successful athletes risk failure, even though they are terrified. — Aimee Mullins

Never forget the life experiences;
Aloneness and companionship.
Cold and warmth.
Hard times and good times.
Failure and success.
Pain and healing.
Planting and harvesting.
Poverty and prosperity.
Searching and finding.
Sorrow and happiness.
Tears and joy. — Lailah Gifty Akita

You can map out a fight plan or a life plan, but when the action starts, it may not go the way you planned, and you're down to your reflexes - that means your [preparation:]. That's where your roadwork shows. If you cheated on that in the dark of the morning, well, you're going to get found out now, under the bright lights. — Joe Frazier

We become what we believe — Lolly Daskal

Give me another Chance
Then,
You will Get
Less than I Gain... — Hasil Paudyal

Don't live your life like an attempt, because if you fail there is no second attempt. — Amit Kalantri

Don't give up!
Keep strong! — Lailah Gifty Akita

Keep trying, your success is certain. — Lailah Gifty Akita

If failure can bring you down, confidently success shall give you the guts to raise — Samuel Lebea

When life breaks you down, you have two choices. You can either leave the pieces on the floor... or you can rebuild yourself so that you're stronger than before. — Tess Alley

Stress builds character and failure breeds motivation. I guess I'm a Optimist. — Noel DeJesus

After the failure in '92, my goal was to be a good pole vaulter. I used that as motivation. — Dan O'Brien

Study the lives of highly successful people from any corner of life, across history, in any environment, and you will discover they share one trait: They keep moving forward. Sometimes slowly. Often with great difficulty. Frequently after painful mistakes, defeats, or failures. Success is less about talent and opportunities, and more about commitment and motivation. — Joe Jordan

We are not wise enough, pure enough, or strong enough to aim and sustain such a single motive over a lifetime. That way lies fanaticism or failure. But if the single motive is the master motivation of God's calling, the answer is yes. In any and all situations, both today and tomorrow's tomorrow, God's call to us is the unchanging and ultimate whence, what, why, and whither of our lives. Calling is a 'yes' to God that carries a 'no' to the chaos of modern demands. Calling is the key to tracing the story line of our lives and unriddling the meaning of our existence in a chaotic world. — Os Guinness

Fear of failure prevents you from realising your dreams of success. — Habeeb Akande

I would give up, but that will teach my kids that it's okay to be a failure and I refuse to ruin their lives like that! — Mignon' Talise Padilla

The unfulfilling job is not the failure; not pursuing your dreams is the real failure. Developing a vision requires conquering your fears and finding motivation from within. — Peter Murphy

When we have suffered a little while, we are restored in strength. — Lailah Gifty Akita

No success was won without self- determination and self-discipline. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Luck comes and goes; you have to seize it. Bad luck comes and goes; it must be overcome. But I will never, never sit at the side of the road showing my wounds and shouting, 'It's destiny'! — Jean Van Hamme

Failure is an experience, not a definition. — T.W. Zugger

Life is enduring endeavour — Lailah Gifty Akita

Success is mesmerizing, and blinding. Sometimes you need good old fashion failure to open your eyes. — Noel DeJesus

So what motivates you more? The fear of failure or the fantastic feeling of achieving your dreams? — Farshad Asl

The fear of failure, of feeling helpless and unable to cope, had been built up in me ever since my childhood. I had to be a success. I had to prove my worth. I had to be right. This need to succeed and to be accepted, even admired by my parents and by those whom I considered my "superiors," was a strong motivating force in me and is a motivation at the heart of many human endeavours. — Jean Vanier

After seven experiments with hundreds of children, we had some of the clearest findings I've ever seen: Praising children's intelligence harms their motivation and it harms their performance. How can that be? Don't children love to be praised? Yes, children love praise. And they especially love to be praised for their intelligence and talent. It really does give them a boost, a special glow - but only for the moment. The minute they hit a snag, their confidence goes out the window and their motivation hits rock bottom. If success means they're smart, then failure means they're dumb. That's the fixed mindset. — Carol S. Dweck

I keep a vivid memory of failure in my back pocket, so no matter how much I accomplish I stay grounded. — Noel DeJesus

Why fear feedback? Why stigmatize failure in the workplace when it's bringing you closer to achieving your organizational goals. — Kevin Kelly

Failure is not the final fall. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The man without a chin, no stamina, dead man, broken man, whatever. On your way to the top, you always get some criticism. Criticism is a great motivation. Failure is not an option to me. — Wladimir Klitschko

Life does not favor the fearful nor does it reward the reluctant; it embraces and elevates those willing to climb in spite of their fear and willing to try in the mocking face of failure. It gives bonus points to those who fall flat, get up and climb again. — Toni Sorenson

Ignore failure. Try anew until you succeed. — Tim Fargo

Dreaming of getting you
I loosed everything
Cheerfulness of smile
And all the dreams of life — Hasil Paudyal

When on the brink of complete discouragement, success is discerning that ... the line between failure and success is so fine that often a single extra effort is all that is needed to bring victory out of defeat. — Elbert Hubbard

Like caterpillars our metamorphosis begins with what comes from our mouth. Caterpillars spin silk cocoons from the mouth. We speak life or death, success or failure. All transformation starts with what comes from our mouth. — Brandi L. Bates

Embrace adversities as the hidden treasures of life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

A pitcher never gets me out. I get myself out. That's no disrespect to the pitcher, but there should be no excuse for failure. You can't have an excuse to fail. — Mike Piazza

You make mistakes, mistakes don't make you — Maxwell Maltz

The courage to try again is a daring spirit. — Lailah Gifty Akita

My major goal in business was to learn. I had legislated in my mind for failure the worse possible scenario was I would learn a lot regardless of the outcome. This goal was the foundation for success of the business. Peldi, Balsamiq — Kevin Kelly DO The Pursuit Of Xceptional Execution

If you scared, say you scared, and if not then push yourself off of that wall and step into the darkness. That's where success is, get up out of that comfort zone, you'll be surprised what you can achieve! — Noel DeJesus

Failure is only an experience. Experience is the foundation of any success. — Lailah Gifty Akita

If you haven't arrived yet, keep driving, your destiny is waiting for you. — Rob Liano

Failure is the ultimate motivator, the supreme teacher, and the definitive guarantee of life. Failure is what makes success so addictive. — Noel DeJesus

He who don't understand the real essence of critics and oppositions in the journey of life criticizes and opposes himself, knowingly or unknowingly, in his journey of life. — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

It's not your schedule that keeps you from praying, it's your failure to realize the importance of prayer. — Jim George

You should be patient to wait for what you want. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The origin of the word fail means to stop functioning. So as long as you haven't stopped, you haven't failed. — Toni Sorenson

Life is an enduring endeavour. — Lailah Gifty Akita

There is a rise after every fall. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Never give up! Failure and rejection are only the first step to succeeding. — Jim Valvano

Vaillant's study and numerous others on happiness, success, failure, and motivation all confirm the same thing: health comes first, happiness is love and connection, and success requires adaptability. To be "happy-well," we must tame the imbalanced tiger in us and instead embrace our inner, balanced dolphin. — Shimi Kang

Why don't you dare the impossible? — Lailah Gifty Akita

Any loss is a gain. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Y'know, the real reason why I was such a failure in the sense of being unable to make any sort of a living was because I was really not motivated. I had no motivation. — Paul Twitchell

Ten percent of American businesses disappear every year ... It's far higher than the failure rate of, say, Americans. Ten percent of Americans don't disappear every year. Which leads us to conclude American businesses fail faster than Americans, and therefore American businesses are evolving faster than Americans. — Tim Harford

The whole system was based upon getting kids to a certain standard and packing their minds with information so they could go on to a good university ... The great failure in education, much of the time, is a lack of excitement and stimulus. — Bill Bryson

Life ahead is full of endless opportunities. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Believe you can and you will be halfway there. — Lolly Daskal

Sometimes, getting comfortable with the circumstance is the only preparation you need to deal with it. — Jasleen Kaur Gumber

In fact, mistakes are life's way of teaching us the right way to do things. — Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

The widely documented failure of late starters to achieve native-like proficiency, even when motivation, cognitive abilities, and opportunities are optimal and plentiful, all agree, is one of the most salient facts about SLA. It is a weighty empirical problem, in Laudan's sense, crying out for a solution. — Michael H. Long

The successes and failures of yesterday are gone, today is a new day. — Noel DeJesus

On the surface one might think that if one simply concerns oneself with altruistic intent and future lifetimes, the practical aspects of this life will not be accomplished, and one will be a failure. This simply isn't true. On the contrary, when one really does renounce or let go of this lifetime everything is taken care of by force of the deeper motivation. — Gen Lamrimpa

A hundred failures mean a thousand successes — Ady Mifarizki

Real love allows for failure and suffering. — Sharon Salzberg

Failure gave me strength. Pain was my motivation — Michael Jordan

You will fail. That's great. Here's a secret for you - that's the only way you can learn. Learning has to cost you something. If you fail but learn something from your failure, you will grow. — Stella Adler

Edit your life frequently and ruthlessly. It's your masterpiece after all. — Nathan W. Morris

Relax your fears, let your ambition take the wheel for a while; it'll take you somewhere exciting that you've never been. — Noel DeJesus

There is no tomorrow and there was no yesterday; if you truly want to accomplish your goals you must engulf yourself in today. — Noel DeJesus

You expect success, you respect failure. — Greg Norman

The path to truly new, never-been-done-before things always has failure along the way. — Regina E. Dugan

I've been trying to stay real
and true and proud of who I am,
all those ideals of how to look
I've been trying not to care.

But I'm still holding my breath,
I 'm still watching every step.
I'm still tip-toeing away,
when I'm getting to ashamed of myself.

I don't want to be your letdown,
I'm scared like hell I'm not enough.
I don't wanna be
your failure anymore.
- The Glass Child, Letdown — Charlotte Eriksson

Maybe it's my own fault. Maybe I led you to believe it was easy when it wasn't. Maybe I made you think my highlights started at the free throw line, and not in the gym. Maybe I made you think that every shot I took was a game winner. That my game was built on flash, and not fire. Maybe it's my fault that you didn't see that failure gave me strength; that my pain was my motivation. Maybe I led you to believe that basketball was a God given gift, and not something I worked for every single day of my life. Maybe I destroyed the game. Or maybe you're just making excuses. — Michael Jordan

If you fall, dare to rise up again. — Lailah Gifty Akita

As well as many subspecies, the main blocks are fear of failure after previous success, fear of success due to a sense of unworthiness, lack of potential venue, jaded attitude, crisis of confidence, evidence of persistent poor quality, lackadaisical motivation, and common everyday shortage of ideas. — Robert Genn

Failure is a signpost on the trail to success — Phillip Gary Smith

Don't ever perceive other people's success as your own failure. — Rob Liano

The same researchers also wanted to know why red hampers academic performance. It turns out that the color red activates the right hemisphere of the frontal cortex, a pattern of brain activity that typically indicates avoidance motivation. Avoidance motivation is the technical term for a state in which you're more concerned with avoiding failure than you are with achieving success. It's a distracting state of mind that all but guarantees poorer performance when you're trying to solve questions that require insight and mental effort. Psychologists have also shown that people literally recoil from the color red, leaning slightly farther backward in their seats when they're about to begin a test with a red rather than green cover. None of these effects occurs consciously, but when they occur together it becomes clear why the color red can be so damaging in academic contexts. — Adam Alter

I advise you to stop sharing your dreams with people who try to hold you back, even if they're your parents. Because, if you're the kind of person who senses there's something out there for you beyond whatever it is you're expected to do - if you want to be EXTRA-ordinary- you will not get there by hanging around a bunch of people who tell you you're not extraordinary. Instead, you will probably
become as ordinary as they expect you to be. — Kelly Cutrone

I was learning the craft; I didn't study writing in school. Rejection was my motivation, and failure is what taught me. — Pierce Brown

Failure leads to a decrease in motivation only when it is accepted as failure. Failure leads students to improve when they see it is a stepping stone on the road to success. — Sang H. Kim

In our lives, we need some hope to be able to proceed to the next ladder, without it, we're failures. — Auliq Ice

I fear that our true motivation is about oil and our own flailing economy; about the failure to destroy Al Qaeda and about revenge. — Dave Matthews

-to me, the future doesn't seem real. It's just this magical place where I can put my responsibilities so that I don't have to be scared while hurtling toward failure at right hundred miles per hour. — Allie Brosh

Defeat is real. It is also temporary. We have to understand both. Faced for what it is, absorbed and met without self-deception, defeat can offer wisdom and motivation. Begin even though you know that you will suffer failure and defeat along the way. — Eric Greitens

Be persistent in the pursuit of your dreams. — Lailah Gifty Akita