Failure and Difficulties

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Acknowledge that you failed, draw your lessons from it, and use it to your advantage to make sure it never happens again.- Michael Johnson

Before success comes in any man's life he is sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps, some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and most logical thing to do is to quit. That is exactly what the majority of men do.- Napoleon Hill

Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality-in your own mind.- Bruce Lee

Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.- Josephus Daniels

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.- Dale Carnegie

Don't judge those who try and fail, judge those who fail to try.- Unknown Author

Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.- Napoleon Bonaparte

Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.- Zig Ziglar

Failure is a prerequisite for great success. If you want to succeed faster, double your rate of failure. - Brian Tracy

Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.- Jim Rohn

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely.- Unknown Author

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
- Henry Ford

Failure is success if we learn from it.- Malcolm Forbes

Failure is the foundation of success, and the means by which it is achieved.- Lao Tzu

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.- Ralph Waldo Emerson

For more people to become entrepreneurs, we have to change our attitude towards those who fail.- Lee Kuan Yew

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. - Albert Einstein

He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.- Napoleon Bonaparte

I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
- Thomas Edison

I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.- Oprah Winfrey

I don't know the key to success but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
- Bill Cosby

I have learnt more from my mistakes than from my success.- Sir Humpry Davy

I have missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. On 26 occassions I have been entrusted to take the game winning shot . . . and missed. And I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why . . . I succeed.- Michael Jordon

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.- Thomas Edison

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.- Muhammad Ali

I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.- Lou Holtz

If something fails despite being carefully planned, carefully redesigned, and conscientiously executed, that failure often bespeaks underlying change and with it, opportunity.- Peter Drucker

If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect, we will immediately feel overwhelmed. - Anthony Robbins

In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.- Vince Lombardi

In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.
- Anthony J. D'Angelo

Incorrect assumptionslie at the root of every failure. Have the courage to test your assumption. - Brian Tracy

It does not matter the number of times we fall but the number of times we rise when we fall.- Confucius

It is not failure itself that holds you back; it is the fear of failure that paralyzes you. - Brian Tracy

It's how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success.- David Feherty

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy. - Anthony Robbins

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.- Thomas Edison

Keep these concepts in mind: You've failed many times, although you don't remember. You fell down the first time you tried to walk. You almost drowned the first time you tried to swim. . . . Don't worry about failure. My suggestion to each of you: Worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try.- Sherman Finesilver

Life's real failure is when you do not realize how close you were to success when you gave up.- Unknown Author

Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.- Zig Ziglar

Many a one has succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat, he would never have known any great victory.- Orison Swett Marden

Many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. - Thomas Edison

Men are failures, not because they are stupid, but because they are not sufficiently impassioned.- Struther Burt

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.- Napoleon Hill

Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.- Anthony Robbins

Most so-called Failures are only temporary defeats.- Napoleon Hill

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.- Abraham Lincoln

Never consider the possibility of failure; as long as you persist, you will be succesful. - Brian Tracy

No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure. - Napoleon Hill

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.- Robert Francis Kennedy

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we often might win by fearing to attempt.- William Shakespeare

Our greatest glory consists not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall.
- Vincent Van Gogh

Past failures are the guidepost for future success.- Unknown Author

Remember, you only have to succeed the last time.- Brian Tracy

Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success
- Dowden

Success is not permanent. The same is also true of failure.- Dell Crossword

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.- Nelson Mandela

The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.- Unknown Author

The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost.- George Shultz

The only real failure in life is one not learned from.- Anthony J. D'Angelo

The worst bankrupt in the world is the man who has lost his enthusiasm. Let a man lose everything else in the world but his enthusiasm and he will come through again to success.- H.W. Arnold

Turn your wounds into wisdom.- Oprah Winfrey

Unless you're willing to have a go, fail miserably, and have another go, success won't happen.- Phillip Adams

What people see of my success is only one percent but what they don't see is the 99 percent which are my failures.- Soichiro Honda

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.- Napoleon Hill

When one door closes another door opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.- Alexander Graham Bell

You don't drown by falling in water; you only drown if you stay there. - Zig Ziglar

You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.
- Michael Johnson