“I have not failed. I've just found
10,000 ways that won't work.”
“Success is not final, failure is
not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
“There is only one thing that makes
a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts
forever.”
― Lance Armstrong, Every Second Counts
― Lance Armstrong, Every Second Counts
“You must make a decision that you
are going to move on. It wont happen automatically. You will have to rise up
and say, ‘I don’t care how hard this is, I don’t care how disappointed I am,
I’m not going to let this get the best of me. I’m moving on with my life.”
― Joel Osteen, Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential
― Joel Osteen, Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential
“Failure is the condiment that gives
success its flavor.”
― Truman Capote
― Truman Capote
“Success is stumbling from failure
to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”
― Winston Churchill
― Winston Churchill
“To err is human, to forgive,
divine.”
― Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism
― Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism
“Have no fear of perfection - you'll
never reach it.”
― Salvador DalĂ
― Salvador DalĂ
“Don't spend time beating on a wall,
hoping to transform it into a door. ”
― Coco Chanel
― Coco Chanel
“The brick walls are there for a
reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there
to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick
walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re
there to stop the other people.”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
“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
― Maya Angelou
“My fault, my failure, is not in the
passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.”
― Jack Kerouac
― Jack Kerouac
“Life is full of screwups. You're
supposed to fail sometimes. It's a required part of the human existance.”
― Sarah Dessen, Along for the Ride
― Sarah Dessen, Along for the Ride
“It is hard to fail, but it is worse
never to have tried to succeed.”
― Theodore Roosevelt
― Theodore Roosevelt
“Success is most often achieved by
those who don't know that failure is inevitable.”
― Coco Chanel, Believing in Ourselves: The Wisdom of Women
― Coco Chanel, Believing in Ourselves: The Wisdom of Women
“Just because you fail once doesn't
mean you're gonna fail at everything.”
― Marilyn Monroe
― Marilyn Monroe
“All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever
tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”
― Samuel Beckett, Worstward Ho
― Samuel Beckett, Worstward Ho
“Only those who dare to fail greatly
can ever achieve greatly.”
― Robert F. Kennedy
― Robert F. Kennedy
“A thinker sees his own actions as
experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and
failure are for him answers above all.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
― Friedrich Nietzsche
“I didn't fail the test, I just
found 100 ways to do it wrong.”
― Benjamin Franklin
― Benjamin Franklin
“Never confuse a single defeat with
a final defeat.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald
― F. Scott Fitzgerald
“I'm done with those; regrets are an
excuse for people who have failed.”
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story
“Together, they would watch
everything that was so carefully planned collapse, and they would smile at the
beauty of destruction.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
“I make mistakes like the next man.
In fact, being--forgive me--rather cleverer than most men, my mistakes tend to
be correspondingly huger.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
“If you fell down yesterday, stand
up today.”
― H.G. Wells
― H.G. Wells
“We are all failures- at least the
best of us are.”
― J.M. Barrie
― J.M. Barrie
“You’re not obligated to win. You’re
obligated to keep trying. To the best you can do everyday.”
― Jason Mraz
― Jason Mraz
“I'd rather be partly great than
entirely useless.”
― Neal Shusterman, Unwind
― Neal Shusterman, Unwind
“My past is everything I failed to
be.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet