Positive Failure Quotes & Sayings

You must conquer fear with faith. — Lailah Gifty Akita

One excuse, could destroy a multitude of chances. — Anthony Liccione

One great cause of failure is lack of concentration. — Bruce Lee

Failure becomes success when it finds positive minds; Tragedy becomes melody when it lands in positive hands. With positivity, possibility is assured! — Israelmore Ayivor

Life is too short to spend your time avoiding failure, — Michael Bloomberg

[...] what else motivated him to spend hour after hour with me, telling all the details of his story? I quote at length his answer.

"I suffered so much and for so long. Maybe if people read this they will realize that if I can make it,they can make it. Many people suffer only because of what happens in their head; I was also physically being tortured. I had no food. No water. If I can make it so can you. If one depressed person avoids committing suicide then the book is a success.

Be strong. Think positive. If you start to think to the contrary, you are headed to failure. Your mind has to be relaxed as you think about survival. Don't think about death. If you think you are going to die, you will die. You have to survive and think about the future of your life, that life is beautiful! How can you imagine taking your own life? There are challenges and punishment in life but you have to fight! — Jonathan Franklin

To Be Happy, You Must Know The Pass Code of Life. And Life Gives You Many Attempts To Unlock It ... — Muhammad Imran Hasan

If you have never did a mistake, then death is impossibe, but then, death is a possible mistake. — Michael Bassey Johnson

We can not paint that in a more positive way if it is already negative, we have to take it that way and think of other means for reaching there. — Auliq Ice

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

Believe in yourself. You can make it in life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

To be successful in life, there are many hurdles you have to get over. For me, the biggest hurdle to success has always been failure. But, growing up, my Dad was always positive ... that I'd never amount to anything. — Christopher Titus

The failure to think positively can weigh on a cancer patient like a second disease. — Barbara Ehrenreich

Keep a positive mind. Remember, a failed attempt doesn't make you a failure - giving up does. — Lorii Myers

Positive mental attitude is the right mental attitude in all circumstances. Success attracts more success while failure attracts more failure. — Napoleon Hill

Napoleon Hill saw this law of transmutation as the seed of equivalent benefit: With every disappointment, heartbreak, or failure, there exists an equal (usually greater) positive benefit. — Napoleon Hill

Only because I prefer a positive to a negative. In this game that we're playing, we can't win. Some kinds of failure are better than other kinds, that's all. — George Orwell

I tell you the truth, so many people failed to do what they could have done because of the bitter things that happened in the past. — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

A principled person's greatest disappointment will always be his or her own failures to respond to setbacks in a dynamic and positive way. — Kilroy J. Oldster

Having the positive belief that it will all be O.K. just means that you hustle and make it work because failure is not even an option in your own mind. — Natalie Massenet

The idea for each of the stories in this book came in a moment of belief and was written in a burst of faith, happiness, and optimism. Those positive feelings have their dark analogues, however, and the fear of failure is a long way from the worst of them. The worst - for me, at least - is the gnawing speculation that I may have already said everything that I have to say, and am now only listening to the steady quacking of my own voice because the silence when it stops is just too spooky. — Stephen King

Your life is a trajectory. Every choice you make alters that trajectory, in a positive or negative way. Will you categorize that dinner with friends as a business expense? Will you be honest with your daughter? Will you take more credit than you're due? These are just the small questions that we face every day, and little by little, the answers influence the trajectory of our lives and beings. — Donald Van De Mark

Hard work precedes great success. — Lailah Gifty Akita

100% commitment is required for any great achievement. — Lailah Gifty Akita

It is essential that we develop a learning space where failure is positive, as it is a catalyst for growth and change. Students need to recognize that taking a risk and not succeeding does not mean they are failing: It means they need to try another way. After — Starr Sackstein

Success teaches us nothing; only failure teaches. — Hyman G. Rickover

A positive outlook breeds success, just as a negative outlook breeds failure. — Brad Cohen

Renew your mind with positive thoughts. — Lailah Gifty Akita

You must rise up anytime you fall. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Forget about what you might have lost but instead focus on what you have room to gain. — Lindsey Rietzsch

No matter what you have done in your life up until today, no matter where you are and how far down you may have slid on the failure curve, you can start fresh, building a positive pattern of success, at any time. Including right now. But you need to have faith in the process, because you won't see it happening at first. — Jeff Olson

Good fiction is about asserting the beauties of the world, inventing a new, positive thing. Where am I going to get that? And it should be original; it should not be cliched. So the way I looked at history was not to accuse it of failure. — Orhan Pamuk

Failure is not the final fall. — Lailah Gifty Akita

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

Though the traditional response to the failure of semi-starvation diets to produce long-term weight loss has been to blame the fat person for a lack of willpower, Bruch, Rony, and others have argued that this failure is precisely the evidence that tells us positive caloric balance or overeating is not the underlying disorder in obesity. — Gary Taubes

Avoidance therapy does not work. One major reason for that is because Avoidance Therapy (diversion, think yourself happy, positive affirmations) is predicated on the validity of 'Failure of Will.' Depression is not a choice. — Northern Adams

Reach with all your heart to your divine-dreams. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Strategic Failure: The ill-will caused by drone strikes are not reducing the threat of terrorism but increasing it. While there were many individuals who once had positive views of the United States, new polling shows the anti-American sentiment effect of drone strikes. Such sentiments discredit diplomatic and NGO efforts to address the civilian and political issues in sveral countries, and potentially drive people into the ranks of militant organizations. Finally, in the very long run, they share our concern about the danger of setting precedent. They envision a future where not only do countries have the ability to indiscriminately attack people, but that dangerous and radical non-state actors can do so as well. — Harry Jones

Forget the past! Look straight ahead with great hope. — Lailah Gifty Akita

In high school, in sport, I had a coach who told me I was much better than I thought I was, and would make me do more in a positive sense. He was the first person who taught me not to be afraid of failure. — Mike Krzyzewski

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

Get out of failure-o-phobia to enjoy success-o-mania. — Prerak Trivedi

Constantly speaking positive words (affirmations) to our children ... will help lead them down the road to success. Speaking negative words to them ... will help lead them down the road to failure. — Timothy Pina

If you doubt, you fall, you fail, you die. Do not doubt. — Shaun Hick

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

Hope in a genuine sense, in any sense worth talking about, is irrevocably tied to failure, and to the criticism of what has and continues to fail us. I always get a little depressed when people think of my poems as simply dark. All of the negativity is really just a way of trying to find something that could honestly be called positive. — Jeffrey Schultz

Other people are not here to fulfill our needs or meet our expectations, nor will they always treat us well. Failure to accept this will generate feelings of anger and resentment. Peace of mind comes with taking people as they are and emphasizing the positive. — A.S.A Harrison

If the curriculum we use to teach our children does not connect in positive ways to the culture young people bring to school, it is doomed to failure. — Lisa Delpit

practice only envisioning yourself at the finish line and be unrelenting and fervent in racing towards that finish line. Undue preoccupation and fixation with the how's, whens, and what ifs will not only derail and further distance you from your destination, but will also feed your mind with those fatal seeds of doubt that make failure inevitable" ~ Awaken and Unleash your Victor — Ogor Winnie Okoye

A leader has to be positive about all things that happen to his team. Look at nothing in the past as failure. — Mike Krzyzewski

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

When we discover and build upon our gifts it spurs positive feelings in us and those around us, and those feelings go a long way toward dissipating the burden of failure that many young Aspergians carry as kids. — John Elder Robison

Never give up. You must persist! — Lailah Gifty Akita

All of us have at least one great voice deep inside. People are products of their environment. A lucky few are born into situations in which positive messages abound. Others grow up hearing messages of fear and failure, which they must block out so the positive can be heard. But the positive and courageous voice will always emerge, somewhere, sometime, for all of us. Listen for it, and your breakthroughs will come. — Pat Riley

Stay focused; leave everything and do something — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

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

Failure is just another opportunity to start over. — Yogi Berra

Negative results are just what I want. They're just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don't. — Thomas A. Edison

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

One positive result of past failure is that you surrender the pursuit of perfection and, if you've gained any sense along the way, you replace it with the pursuit of God's redemption. Nothing is more redemptive than faith in God. You learn that failure may be painful, but it's rarely fatal. After coming to grips with the high premium God places on our faith, I refuse to give up a life practice of believing God just because I accidentally swerve off the road a few times in my faith journey. Hebrews 11:6 says faith is what pleases God, not perfection. — Beth Moore

The solution is to change from the negative to the positive and one way to do that is to remember that failure is an event - it is not a person. Another way is to understand that your child might make a mistake, but the child is not a mistake — Zig Ziglar

If I were to measure my successes by the mistakes that I have made & only focus on the lessons that were learned along the way, then that in itself overall, would be a positive step in the right direction. — Christine Upton

Nobody really enjoys having to pacify their feelings. It's too much like failure; it reminds you of weakness. but feelings don't want to be pacified, either. They want to be fulfilled. You fulfill your positive feelings (love, hope, optimism, appreciation, approval) by connecting with other people, expressing your best self. You fulfill your negative feelings by releasing them. Your whole system recognizes negative feelings as toxic. It's futile to bottle them up, divert them, ignore them, or try to rise above them. Either negativity is leaving or it's hanging on - it has no other alternative.
As you fulfill emotions, your brain will change and form new patterns, which is the whole goal. — Deepak Chopra

In order to help children make the most of their education, parents must begin to relinquish control and focus on three goals: embracing opportunities to fail, finding ways to learn from that failure, and creating positive home-school relationships. — Jessica Lahey

In a fear-based, failure-averse culture, people will consciously or unconsciously avoid risk. They will seek instead to repeat something safe that's been good enough in the past. Their work will be derivative, not innovative. But if you can foster a positive understanding of failure, the opposite will happen. — Ed Catmull

Failure is always present as an actor. I make my living by taking chances. If I'm not risking something, then I'm not doing my job, so I'm constantly failing. In fact, I'm trying to fail bigger. I try to focus on the positive, the moment, and try to realize where I'm at in an attempt to understand the failure. — Damon Runyon

A positive attitude is important, but it is only part of the story. Understanding how to surmount pain, doubt, and failure is a vital component in winning the game of life. — Chin-Ning Chu

With self-courage, self-confidence and self-will, you will master the act. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Don't give up! Keep trying, your victory is certain. — Lailah Gifty Akita

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

Negative thinking will always lead to failure and nervous prostration; but positive faith- positive thinking -will lead you towards happy, healthy, and abundant living. — Albert E Cliffe

Make a distinction between positive contingencies, and negative. Learn to distinguish between those human undertakings in which a lack of predictability has been extremely beneficial, and those where failure to understand the future has caused harm. — Nicholas Nassim Taleb

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results. — William James

Failure is enriching. It's also important to accept that you'll make mistakes - it's how you build your expertise. The trick is to learn a positive lesson from all of life's negative moments. — Alain Ducasse

I have learned to not let a bad race or failure bring me down, and always walking away with something positive and learning from mistakes so I can be better or stronger next time. — Erin Hamlin

Perseverance means to continue in a given course until we have reached a goal or objective, regardless of obstacles, opposition, and other counterinfluences ... Perseverance is a positive, active characteristic ... It gives us hope by helping us realize that the righteous suffer no failure except in giving up and no longer trying. — Joseph B. Wirthlin

You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life. — Arthur L. Williams Jr.

Adapt to any situation. — Lailah Gifty Akita

With persistent attempt, you will succeed. — Lailah Gifty Akita

With diligent, you will master the act. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Don't take 'no' for an answer, never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. You will make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you cannot hurt the world or events. — Winston Churchill

Failure could bring the best opportunity to start the most wonderful life. — Debasish Mridha

Like success, failure is many things to many people. With a positive mental attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again. — W. Clement Stone

The idea that positive illusions are in the service of sef-esteem virtually requires that they stay in check. If one develops substantially unrealistic expectations regarding the future that greatly exceed what one is actually able to accomplish, then one is set up for failure and disappointment, leading to lower self-esteem. — Shelley E. Taylor

I don't do that kind of negativity. If you put your energy into thinking about how much the fall would hurt, you're already halfway down. — Tana French

Keep going forward. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Those who dare try and failure are courageous souls. — Lailah Gifty Akita

We always have a choice of going after positive or negative, prosperity or poverty, health or disease, success or failure. — Hina Hashmi

Life is an enduring endeavour. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Sometimes, you may think you have fallen into an abyss ... when in fact, you've just descended to the roots ... of the tree of life! Somewhere along your climb, you got lost amongst the branches, and lost in the darkness of the branches, the only way to find the straight way up would be to return to the roots! And from there amongst the roots, you will be able to look straight up and see the top again! And begin your ascent! — C. JoyBell C.

Failure is only an experience. — Lailah Gifty Akita

To try is to accept the possibility of failure. Simply do. — Wayne Gerard Trotman

Hillary Clinton failed to mention that her agreement with a precipitous withdrawal and declaration of victory in 2011 helped left swaths of territory and weaponry from ISIS. She failed to mention that she described Bashar al-Assad as a positive reformer and opened an American embassy. She failed to mention a complete failure strategy in Libya, which now is enabling ISIS to move into Libya. — Carly Fiorina

In life you have a choice between two roads. The positive road and the negative road. The positive road will lead to enhanced health, happiness, and success and the negative road will lead to misery, anger, and failure. — Jon Gordon

I don't know who started this thing about being perfect but the sooner we ditch that idea the happier we all will be! — Alastair Arnott

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

When people want success but visualize failure, they attract failure because they don't know about the power of repetition/visualization. — Hina Hashmi

Any loss is a gain. — Lailah Gifty Akita

It feels bad when a film doesn't work; everyone puts in a lot of effort to make a movie. The positive side to failure - they make me work harder. — Shahid Kapoor

Think positive. Envision your rest as you become more deprived. Envision your success as you endure more failure. Do not fuel despair with false truth. Instead, battle despair with hope. — Peter S. Fogg