Quotes About Overcoming Failure

#1. [When working on a book] I have an almost complete detachment from the world I live in, a sort of armor against distraction. I talk to people, move about, appear on the surface much as usual. But later on I have only a confused memory of what has happened during that period.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

#2. We like recovery stories to move quickly through the dark so we can get to the sweeping redemptive ending. I worry that this lack of honest accounts of overcoming adversity has created a Gilded Age of Failure.

Brene Brown

#3. The digital tools allow us to have control over what and how we can alter an image that was unimaginable in the era of analog photography.

Pedro Meyer

#4. Travel is about failure or overcoming obstacles, overcoming failures. When a traveler is having lots of good luck, that is not a happy book. That's a book you say, well, I don't need that. I want a life lesson. I want to find out - I want a journey that reflects my life.

Paul Theroux

#5. I use a lot of different words for God - infinite intelligence, primordial, perfection or universal creativity. All of these, to me, are God. And 'God' is a word, I think, that some people feel uncomfortable with, so they can use another word, you know? It's the great mystery.

Alex Grey

#6. Never be disabused of those hopes you believe in otherwise you will go far as far as you can't be.

Auliq Ice

#7. Dreams come true if we can pursue them by overcoming the fear of failure.

Debasish Mridha

#8. Don't stop when you fail. Instead, use your failures to measure your level of success.

Kevin J. Donaldson

#9. Edition to edition, the symptoms change. Sane people are insane by a new standard. People who used to be called insane are the picture of perfect mental health.

Chuck Palahniuk

#10. Adapt to any situation.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#11. The pressure of adversity is the most powerful sustainer of accountability. It's as though everything you do is multiplied by 50 in order to surpass those with a head-start. I was never capable of slacking when at the threshold of failure.

Criss Jami

#12. I don't know a kid who grew up in the '90s who wasn't obsessed with Disney, and I guess I never grew out of that phase, honestly. It's not just Disney: it's anything that has to do with fairytales for me. I think I just have Peter Pan Syndrome or something.

Todrick Hall

#13. It's just as difficult to overcome success as it is to overcome failure.

William Walton

#14. I don't think failure is to be overcome as much as it is to be learned from.

Karla Cheatham Mosley

#15. I know it's not ordinary. But who ever loved ordinary?

Joan Clarke

#16. Fear will do one thing and one thing only: hold you back

Kya Aliana

#17. No man or woman is uniformly successful ... we must all expect a rather high percentage of failure in the things we attempt.

Barnaby Keeney

#18. I overcome failure by doing it again and trying not to make the same mistake.

Guy Burnet

#19. Sometimes, when we want something so badly, we fear failure more than we fear being without that thing.

Matthew J. Kirby

#20. I've got to stop this. Stop worrying about the why. Stop forcing what was happening into the realm of impossible. Stop hiding behind excuses. Stop being afraid to step out on faith.

Deatri King-Bey

#21. Overcast does not always forecast rain neither does difficulty always forecast failure.

Kevin A. McKoy

#22. Everyone has degrees of madness in them, everyone has a story to tell.

Bryony Gordon

#23. Old radicals never changed. They just got law degrees and updated their bag of tricks.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#24. The great fear I've had to overcome is the fear of failure. It can be safer to stay in a comfort zone that's not stretching yourself.

Carmen Ejogo

#25. Most every young man either takes inspiration from his father or wishes he could. I was fortunate in that I could.

Sheldon Whitehouse

#26. Fears are educated into us, and can, if we wish, be educated out.

Karl A. Menninger

#27. In general, the only way to overcome failure is to not let it destroy you. It's that old saying, "Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger." You just have to keep going.

Christopher Gorham

#28. Failure is not important, how you overcome it is.

Nick Vujicic

#29. The crucifix does not signify defeat or failure. It reveals to us the Love that overcomes evil and sin.

Pope Francis

#30. Failure is a judgment, an opinion. It stems from your fears, which can be eliminated by love-love for yourself, love for what you do, love for others, and love for your planet.

Wayne Dyer

#31. I spent a little more than five months in Vienna. I danced. I went ice skating and skiing. For strenuous exercise, I argued with an Englishman.

J.D. Salinger

#32. I've observed that if individuals who prevail in a highly competitive environment have any one thing in common besides success, it is failure - and their ability to overcome it.

Bill Walsh

#33. Reduce your dependence on 'luck' by creating opportunities.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#34. There's something to be said for CEOs' entering politics: In theory, they have management expertise and financial savvy. Then again, it didn't work so well with Dick Cheney.

Nicholas Kristof