Top 1200 Overcoming Failure Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

Treat failure as a lesson on how not to approach achieving a goal, and then use that learning to improve your chances of success when you try again. Failure is only the end if you decide to stop.

Failure is an awful thing, and when I look at the common denominator of failure, it seems to always be the same thing: excuses.

Failure to believe stems from moral failure to recognize the truth, not from want of evidence, but from willful neglect or distortion of the evidence.

Failure is an inside job. So is success. If you want to achieve, you have to win the war in your thinking first. You can't let the failure outside you get inside you.

Failure isn't failure if a lesson from it's learned. I guess love would not be love without a risk of being burned.

I'm a proven fighter - overcoming life's toughest challenges.

All I can do will only ever be a faint image of what I see and my success will always be less than my failure or perhaps equal to the failure.

The failure of modern living is the failure of the imagination...Literature is the royal road that enables us to enter the realm of the imagination.

When there is fear of failure, there will be failure.

We all struggle with our failure to communicate and our failure to reach beyond fear to love people.

While it's important to accept failure and not let it bog you down, it's also perfectly acceptable to get upset about it as long as you remember that failure is a stepping stone in your journey that is getting you to where you need to be.

Girls tend to attribute their failures to factors such as lack of ability, while boys tend to attribute failure to specific factors, including teachers' attitudes. Moreover, girls avoid situations in which failure is likely, whereas boys approach such situations as a challenge, indicating that failure differentially affects self-esteem.

I'm troubled by what I see as a sort of rooting for Trump's failure, because that is rooting for our own failure.

Fear of failure leads to failure.

There is but one failure in life and that is the failure to try.

There is a difference between failing and failure. Failing is trying something that you learn doesn't work. Failure is throwing in the towel and giving up.

Failure, failure is so important, it doesn’t get spoken about enough, we speak about success all the time.

If failure isn't an option, then success isn't either. Success is just failure repeated until it works.

Good subjects must feel guilty. The guilt begins as a feeling of failure. The good autocrat provides many opportunities for failure in the populace.

Honestly, I've learned from results, period. Everything isn't a failure. Sometimes it just doesn't work. That's not a failure. Maybe it just means it wasn't its time.

You can be discouraged by failure, or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes, make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success - on the far side of failure.

Live your life not celebrating victories, but overcoming defeats.

Failure: Is it a limitation? Bad timing? It's a lot of things. It's something you can't be afraid of, because you'll stop growing. The next step beyond failure could be your biggest success in life.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

The true badge of courage is overcoming the fear of men.

Poetry is a perfectly reasonable means of overcoming chaos.

The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower.

If you can't send your daughter to school when you know it will help her, you feel a sense of failure, and you feel that failure deeply.

I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

Faith is not for overcoming obstacles; it is for experiencing them—all the way through!

Failure happens to everyone in this game. It's not something worth harping on. What is worth focusing on is how you respond to that failure.

Failure and success are part of the same seed. If you don't embrace your failure, you never really know what success is.

If Liberia has failed, then, it is no evidence of the failure of the Negro in government. It is merely evidence of the failure of slavery.

Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.

When you say 'failure,' that seems really dramatic, but a lot of failure is just really depressing and mundane. I remember the first time I ever played a concert in Italy. I played a venue that held 900 people, and I think five people showed up. It wasn't a big, 'John Carter of Mars' type failure. It wasn't dramatic; it was just depressing.

There is always a chance of failure, of producing something totally unnecessary. But I guess that chance of failure is what makes tightrope walking, race-car driving.

People who are optimistic see a failure as due to something that can be changed so that they can succeed next time around, while pessimists take the blame for the failure, ascribing it to some characteristic they are helpless to change.

The essence of man is imperfection. Failure is simply a price we pay to achieve success. If we learn to embrace that new definition of failure, then we are free to start moving ahead - and failing forward.

Failure is not an option. Failure is a prerequisite.

I must have no fear of failure. It was my fear of failure that first kept me from attempting the Master Work.

At times failure is very necessary for the artist. It reminds him that failure is not the ultimate disaster. And this reminder liberates him from the mean fussing of perfectionism.

We develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and obstacles.

I'm kind of a failure. I mean, I'll be honest. I'm successful in that I'm getting to work on great stuff, but I think I'm a failure in all the personal stuff that is most important to me.

Life is about timing and overcoming difficult things.

Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice.

True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success, and in some ways it's better to have failure at the beginning of your career, or your life.

There's a silly notion that failure's not an option at NASA. Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.

Failure is an event, not a person. You are NOT a failure!

AIG's failure revealed systemic problems in the OTC derivatives market that went well beyond the failure of a single market participant.

There is no failure except the failure of trying.

It doesn't matter what your probability of failure is. If there's a 90% chance of failure, there's a 10% chance of changing the world.

There's something to be said for failing. It's not the failure you feel, it's the failure that people project when something disappoints. You're back to ground zero, where there's no expectations, and that's where I like to be.

Here's a memonic device that I feel teaches how we can properly cope with failure. Forget about your failures; don't dwell on past mistakes Anticipate failure; realize that we all make mistakes. Intensity in everything you do; never be a failure for lack of effort. Learn from your mistakes; don't repeat previous errors. Understand why you failed; diagnose your mistakes so as to not repeat them. Respond, don't react to errors; responding corrects mistakes while reacting magnifies them. Elevate your self-concept. It's OK to fail, everyone does; now how are you going to deal with the failure

I didn't fear failure. I expected failure.

Success is overcoming obstacles on the way to your dreams.

I think it's only failure if you put the word failure on it. I think it's part of the process of learning where you're going to go and what doesn't work.

With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.

If you visualize a failure, you tend to create the conditions that produce failure. Visualize-believe-and thank God in advance.

The greatest failure is the failure to try.