Failure Motivational Quotes - Page 3

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Winston Churchill

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life, Motivational, Positive

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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There is no failure except in no longer trying.

Chris Bradford

Inspirational, Inspiring, Success

Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.

John Wooden

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

"The Wizard's wisdom: 'Woodenisms'", www.espn.com. June 4, 2010.

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Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.

George Edward Woodberry

Inspirational, Success, Motivational Sports

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

George Washington Carver

Inspirational, Motivational, Badass

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You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

Richard Branson

Inspirational, Success, Encouraging

Richard Branson (2010). “Business Stripped Bare: Adventures of a Global Entrepreneur”, Virgin

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I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.

George Burns

Inspirational, Cute, Positive

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A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.

John Burroughs

Inspirational, Positive, Running

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Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

Henry Ford

Love, Inspirational, Life

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Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Denis Waitley

Motivational, Change, Teacher

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Don't worry about failure; you only have to be right once.

Drew Houston

Inspirational, Motivational, Business

"The Era Of The #fumblebrag" by Caleb Garling, www.wired.com. March 26, 2015.

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I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

Bill Cosby

Inspirational, Motivational, Success

Quoted in Barbara Rowes, The Book of Quotes (1979)

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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

Truman Capote

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

Truman Capote, M. Thomas Inge (1987). “Truman Capote: Conversations”, p.189, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.

John Dewey

Inspirational, Motivational, Success

John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Richard Rorty (2008). “The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1933”, p.206, SIU Press

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Show me a satisfied man, and I'll show you a failure.

Albert Einstein

Failure, Men, Infinite Intelligence

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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man - and I will show you a failure.

Thomas A. Edison

Success, Educational, Failure

"The Diary and Sundry Observations of Thomas Alva Edison". Book by Thomas A. Edison, 1948.

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My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

Abraham Lincoln

Inspirational, Perseverance, Failure

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Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.

Dale Carnegie

Inspirational, Success, Encouraging

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Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off your goals.

Brian Tracy

Inspirational, Motivational, Eye

Brian Tracy, Azim Jamal (2016). “What You Seek Is Seeking You”, p.139, Jaico Publishing House

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Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker

John C. Maxwell

Teacher, Life And Love, Failure

Twitter post from Mar 7, 2016

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Failure is delay, but not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead-end street.

William Arthur Ward

Failure, Delay, Detours

William Arthur Ward (1968). “Thoughts of a Christian Optimist: The Words of William Arthur Ward”

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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Self Esteem, Careers, Will And Determination

Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.

Josephus Daniels

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.

Thomas A. Edison

Inspirational, Wise, Wisdom

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