Take a look at the successful people around us. They took failure as a life lesson and accepted it. While all of us face failure, it is how we respond to it that defines us. The fear of failure can often become your biggest obstacle in achieving your dreams so we’ve compiled a list of 15 quotes that will hopefully inspire you –
1. “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
2. “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas Edison
3. “I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.” – Michael Jordan
4. “Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time we fail.” – Confucious
5. “Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill
6. “Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life–think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.” – Swami Vivekananda
7. “There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.” – Paulo Coelho
8. “If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above everyone else’s success” ― James Cameron
9. “Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.” – Lance Armstrong
10. “The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.” – Henry Ford
11. “Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory.” – Mahatma Gandhi
12. “Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.” – Donald Trump
13. “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” – Thomas Edison
14. “Failure is the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.” – Henry Ford
15. “What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.” – Oscar Wilde
The next time you let failure distract you, keep these words of wisdom in mind and start all over again 🙂
