Quotes About Overcoming Failures

#1. 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

#2. I Intend to Take Time for Myself to Live the Life that I Came Here to Live.

Wayne Dyer

#3. Experts step outside their comfort zone and study themselves failing.

Joshua Foer

#4. [Rosa Louise] Parks used to say, "Everybody looks at me because I sat down once in Montgomery, but the real hero is a woman named Septima Clark."She created the Citizenship Schools [where civil-rights activists taught basic literacy and political education classes].

Marian Wright Edelman

#5. Slavery is the next thing to hell.

Harriet Tubman

#6. Katie." He groaned. "I burn for you."

Just a few husky words, but coming from a man so taciturn, she thought they must equal reams of poetry.

Tessa Dare

#7. I really like life, don't you? There's nothing else quite like it.

Mason Cooley

#8. A watched supper dish never fills!

Charles M. Schulz

#9. Male conspiracy cannot explain all female failures. I am convinced that, even without restrictions, there still would have been no female Pascal, Milton, or Kant. Genius is not checked by social obstacles: it will overcome.

Camille Paglia

#10. If this kept up much longer, I was going to happen to someone.

Sarah A. Hoyt

#11. If you love your dad, it's tough when he dies. If you don't like your dad, it's tough when he dies. Because you lose that guy. Whatever you didn't get, you miss. And what you did get, you miss.

Jimmy Iovine

#12. Mama, Peter cried. She didn't look up. The door shut.

Brom

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

Kevin J. Donaldson

#14. Living, in the case of animals, thus means getting on, and any ability, whether physical or intellectual, is of importance to the extent that it makes such getting on successful.

Frank Morton McMurry