Failure quotes to keep you motivated
You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.
-Maya Angelou
Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat
-F. Scott Fitzgerald
If you fell down yesterday, stand up today
-H.G. Wells
It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default
-J.K. Rowling
My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them
-Jack Kerouac
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor
-Truman Capote
This manuscript of yours that has just come back from another editor is a precious package. Don’t consider it rejected. Consider that you’ve addressed it ‘to the editor who can appreciate my work’ and it has simply come back stamped ‘Not at this address’. Just keep looking for the right address
-Barbara Kingsolver
We are all failures- at least the best of us are
-J.M. Barrie
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement
-C.S. Lewis
And I did, in the end, find that inspiration, but I found it in the most unlikely and unexpected place. I found it in lessons that I had learned earlier in life about how creativity can survive its own failure
-Elizabeth Gilbert
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
What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise
-Oscar Wilde
I love my rejection slips. They show me I try
-Sylvia Plath
Fairy tale does not deny the existence of sorrow and failure: the possibility of these is necessary to the joy of deliverance. It denies (in the face of much evidence, if you will) universal final defeat…giving a fleeting glimpse of Joy; Joy beyond the walls of the world, poignant as grief
-J.R.R. Tolkien
I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying
-Michael Jordan
It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default
-J. K. Rowling
“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work
-Thomas A. Edison
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you learn from defeat, you haven’t really lost
-Zig Ziglar
If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative
-Woody Allen
What matters is this: Being fearless of failure arms you to break the rules. In doing so, you may change the culture and just possibly, for a moment, change life itself
-Malcolm Mclaren
I don’t believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process
-Oprah Winfrey
A minute’s success pays the failure of years
-Robert Browning
We’re born with success. It is only others who point out our failures, and what they attribute to us as failure
-Whoopi Goldberg
I’ve probably earned the right to screw up a few times. I don’t want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about
-Emma Watson
It’s only when you risk failure that you discover things. When you play it safe, you’re not expressing the utmost of your human experience
-Lupita Nyong’o
The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure
-John C. Maxwell
Failure isn’t fatal, but failure to change might be
-John Wooden
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently
-Henry Ford
If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above everyone else’s success
-James Cameron
A failure doesn’t mean you are unworthy, nor does it preclude success on the next try
-Leonard Mlodinow
Failure doesn’t kill you… it increases your desire to make something happen
-Kevin Costner
You don’t go into anything contemplating failure, because if you did, you wouldn’t make it
-Simon Cowell
Don’t think of it as failure. Think of it as time-released success
-Robert Orben
I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying
-Michael Jordan
I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work
-Thomas A. Edison
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them
-Jack Kerouac
To ward off a feeling of failure, she joked that she could wallpaper her bathroom with rejection slips, which she chose not to see as messages to stop, but rather as tickets to the game
-Anita Shreve
What seems to us as bitter trials are often blesWhat seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise
-Oscar Wilde
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor
-Truman Capote
Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success
-C. S. Lewis
You always pass failure on your way to success
-Mickey Rooney
Failure is not falling down but refusing to get up
-Chinese proverb
Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough
-Og Mandion