16 Inspiring Quotes For Those Who Fear Failure
By Ari Eastman
1.
“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
— Thomas A. Edison
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“I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.”
— Michael Jordan
3.
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
— Winston Churchill
4.
“Failure is so important. We speak about success all the time. It is the ability to resist failure or use failure that often leads to greater success. I’ve met people who don’t want to try for fear of failing.”
— J.K. Rowling
5.
“Failure isn’t fatal, but failure to change might be.”
— John Wooden
6.
“It’s failure that gives you the proper perspective on success.”
— Ellen DeGeneres
7.
“You make mistakes. Mistakes don’t make you.”
— Maxwell Maltz
8.
“However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.”
— Stephen Hawking
9.
“Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.”
— Bill Gates
10.
“At 23, JK Rowling was broke. Tina Fey was working at the Y.M.C.A. Oprah had just gotten fired from her first job as a TV reporter and Walt Disney had declared bankruptcy.”
— Heidi Priebe
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“I really don’t think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don’t mind the failure but I can’t imagine that I’d forgive myself if I didn’t try.”
— Nikki Giovanni
12.
“Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.”
— C.S. Lewis
13.
“You always pass failure on your way to success.”
— Mickey Rooney
14.
“Do one thing every day that scares you.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
15.
“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.”
— Robert F. Kennedy
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“Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.”
— Nelson Mandela