Failure and resilience quotes

Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.

Failure is an event, not a person. Yesterday ended last night.

Others can stop you temporarily. You are the only one who can do it permanently.

Failure has been correctly identified as the line of least persistence.

Every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.

There is no substitute for persistence.

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

It's not over until you win.

Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.

Believe that problems do have answers. Believe that they can be overcome. Believe that they can be handled. And finally, believe that you can solve them.

When obstacles or difficulties arise, the positive thinker takes them as creative opportunities.

I will persist until I succeed.

Always I will take another step. If that is of no avail I will take another, and yet another. In truth, one step at a time is not too difficult.

I will love the light for it shows me the way; yet I will love the darkness for it shows me the stars.

All great achievers are given multiple reasons to believe they are failures. But in spite of that they persevere.

Sometimes you win, sometimes you learn.

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end.

Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.

All change is hard at first, messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end.

Avoidance will make you feel less vulnerable in the short run, but it will never make you less afraid.

Within every obstacle is an opportunity to improve our condition.

Everything is figureoutable.

Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.

The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything.

I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life; I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.

We shall make mistakes; and if we let these mistakes frighten us from our work we shall show ourselves weaklings.

It is common sense to take a method and try it: If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.

When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

Hope is that thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us if we have the courage to reach for it and to work for it and to fight for it.

Instead of letting your hardships and failures discourage or exhaust you, let them inspire you. Let them make you even hungrier to succeed.

Never give in, never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.

We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

I have discovered the secret that after climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

I am fundamentally an optimist... Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

If you can't fly, run; if you can't run, walk; if you can't walk, crawl; but by all means keep moving.

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

I had crossed the line of which I had so long been dreaming. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom.

The only tired I was, was tired of giving in.

Do not get lost in a sea of despair. Be hopeful, be optimistic. Our struggle is not the struggle of a day, a week, a month, or a year, it is the struggle of a lifetime.

With such women consecrating their lives, failure is impossible!

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

You turn if you want to. The lady's not for turning.

Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

Let the future tell the truth and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.

Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.

It is a waste of time to be angry about my disability. One has to get on with life and I haven't done badly. People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.

My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus.

So next time someone complains that you have made a mistake, tell him that may be a good thing. Because without imperfection, neither you nor I would exist.

Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve.

Little strokes fell great oaks.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

No one should be discouraged, Theaetetus, who can make constant progress, even though it be slow.

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.

The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.

Men are disturbed, not by things, but by the principles and notions which they form concerning things.

No thing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig.

If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?

If you are wholly perplexed and in straits, have patience, for patience is the key to joy.

God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites, so that you will have two wings to fly, not one.

What does not kill me, makes me stronger.

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms, to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.

There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions, as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one's life.

The meaning and design of a problem seem not to lie in its solution, but in our working at it incessantly.

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Unless you have a lot of passion about this, you're not going to survive.

You fix what can be fixed, and what can't be fixed you endure.

Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin again.

One thing is certain in business. You and everyone around you will make mistakes.

Failure for me became not trying, versus the outcome.

There is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction.

It doesn't matter how far you might rise. At some point you are bound to stumble.

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

Celebrate your successes. Find some humor in your failures. Don't take yourself so seriously.

I was an overnight success all right, but thirty years is a long, long night.

Don't stop. Don't even think about stopping until you get there, and don't give much thought to where 'there' is.

The cowards never started and the weak died along the way. That leaves us, ladies and gentlemen. Us.

It doesn't matter how many times you have failed, you only have to be right once.

Try to turn every disaster into an opportunity.

Pain + Reflection = Progress

Today is tough. Tomorrow is much tougher. But the day after tomorrow is beautiful.

If you don't give up, you still have a chance. Giving up is the greatest failure.

If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places.

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

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 fail by default.

The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

The best way out is always through.

Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words, And never stops at all.

Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience; or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.

There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.

I hated every minute of it. But I said to myself, 'Suffer now, and live the rest of your life as a champion.'

I never thought of losing, but now that it's happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.

I've missed over 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times I've been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

Failure is not fatal but failure to change might be.

Don't beat yourself. That's the worst kind of defeat you'll ever suffer.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

I really think a champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall.

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

It ain't over till it's over.

The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning.

Always look for the helpers. There's always someone who is trying to help.

I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy to be alive as long as I can paint.

Feet, what do I need them for if I have wings to fly.

Isolation makes you sensitive. As a kid, I felt I was the only person who was like that. But there's a good side to isolation. It makes you sensitive, and sensitivity is part of the creative process.

Failure is inevitable. Success is elusive.