Top 1200 Overcoming Failure Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

Overcoming difficulties leads to courage, self-respect, and knowing yourself.

Failure is an event, something that happens at a specific time on a certain day. If you want to be successful, you have to embrace failure and get back up every single time.

Never tell anyone outside my staff that the Submarine Force and the First Air Fleet were responsible for the failure at Midway. The failure at Midway was mine.

I've never known anybody to achieve anything without overcoming adversity.

I will work day and night to avoid failure, but if I can't, I'll pick myself up the next day. The most important thing for entrepreneurs is not to be put off by failure.

Overcoming my sister's shadow was the biggest thing I ever tried to do.

Directing while overcoming differences of language and culture is a stimulating challenge.

War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political. That a war can be represented as helping a people to 'feel good' about themselves, or their country, is a measure of that failure.

Every entrepreneur knows how agonizingly difficult it is to make the decision to give it your all, knowing that failure is inevitable; the successful ones know that the only way to get back up is through learning from that failure.

... the Armenian massacre was the greatest crime of the war, and the failure to act against Turkey is to condone it ... the failure to deal radically with the Turkish horror means that all talk of guaranteeing the future peace of the world is mischievous nonsense.

Human interaction is the key force in overcoming resistance and speeding change.

Only acknowledge your limitations for the purpose of overcoming them.

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

I emphasize that virtually every engineering calculation is ultimately a failure calculation, because without a failure criterion against which to measure the calculated result, it is a meaningless number.

Solyndra's failure isn't a reason for the government to give up on alternative energy, any more than the failure of Pets.com during the Internet bubble means that venture capital should steer clear of tech projects.

Envy not success, nor pity failure, for you know not what is success or failure in the soul's reckoning.

The Lord has given an overcoming victory to every person who is born again.

Some failure in life is inevitable. 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. Failure gave me an inner security that I had never obtained by passing examinations. Failure taught me things that I could not have learned any other way. I discovered I had a strong will and more discipline than I had suspected.

Losing does not make you a failure; it is when you blame someone for losing when you become a failure

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.

Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance. It is laying hold of His willingness.

I won't call myself a failure. Failure is not getting knocked down. It's not getting up.

For what I've overcome and am still overcoming, and accomplishing, says a lot.

Grief is natural,' she said. 'Overcoming it is a matter of choice.

The thrill of achievement comes from overcoming adversity in the accomplishment of an important goal.

Overcoming barriers to performance is how groups become teams.

I suppose half of writing is overcoming the revulsion you feel when you sit down to it.

My personality is based on an anonymity and failure. Failure and anonymity, those are my strengths - superiority from below.

There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

The problem of the modern economy is not a failure of a knowledge of economics; it's a failure of a knowledge of history.

Failure is Central to engineering. Every single calculation that an engineer makes is a failure calculation.

Bravely overcoming one small fear gives you the courage to take on the next.

The highs in my career have been overcoming the problems and smiling at them and getting on.

Identifying and overcoming natural fear is one of the pleasing struggles intrinsic to climbing.

The world is weary of hate. We see the fatigue overcoming the Western nations.

People think that the opposite of success is failure, but it's not. Failure is part of the process of success.

A feeling of confidence and personal power comes from facing challenges and overcoming them.

There are, I believe, three steps to overcoming fear: name it, normalise it, socialise it.

The failings in Afghanistan don't fall on the shoulders of the American service personnel trying to complete their mission. The failure falls on military leadership unable to adapt to irregular warfare, and a Congress that blindly continues to fund failure.

The warrior is different in that studying the Way of strategy is based on overcoming men

When I thought about why I was sometimes reluctant to push myself, I realized that it was because I was afraid of failure - but in order to have more success, I needed to be willing to accept more failure.

It's not about the failure, it's about learning from the failures. Failure itself cannot be celebrated.

Both half success and half failure must be considered as a full failure!

Happiness is the overcoming of not unknown obstacles toward a known goal.

I love people who succeed in life overcoming various odds.

Obstacles are found everywhere, and in overcoming them we nourish ourselves.

I can be shy, but I’m not really. I try to be better at overcoming these things people have said.

The theme of my life is overcoming. It is my personal mantra and what I help other people do.

A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free.

Failure isn't a character quality. It's just an event. How you respond to failure is your character.

I would say that failure to terraform Mars constitutes failure to live up to our human nature and a betrayal of our responsibility as members of the community of life itself

A repressed person overcoming their repression always makes good music.

Life is about overcoming self-doubt. But you don't grow if you don't question yourself.

The secrets to happiness include enterprise, exploration of one's interests and the overcoming of obstacles.

The fear of failure never goes away. In many ways, you could argue that success multiplies the opportunities for failure. It's just more of an argument for becoming more comfortable with it.

It is by overcoming obstacles that man develops those qualities he needs.

We have actually experienced in recent months a dramatic demonstration of an unprecedented intelligence failure, perhaps the most significant intelligence failure in the history of the United States.

The patient person accepts a certain amount of failure knowing that it is as important a thread in the fabric of life as is success. Great individuals make great successes out of failure.

The malfeasance and misjudgments by our corporate, financial and government leaders, declining ethical standards, and the failure of our new agency society reflect a failure of capitalism.

If your startup is only in the development or idea stage, there is almost no better predictor of failure - I mean, utter failure, scorched-earth bankruptcy - than raising too much money in the first round.