Quotes & Sayings About Overcoming Failure

What helped him build resilience the most, he told me, was overcoming pervasiveness: "Extreme compartmentalization may be my biggest superpower," he said, laughing. If a project doesn't turn out the way he wanted, Byron remembers that things could always be worse. "I say to myself and to others all the time, 'Is anyone gonna die?' That's the worst - I'm not afraid of failure." Byron — Sheryl Sandberg

I don't think failure is to be overcome as much as it is to be learned from. — Karla Cheatham Mosley

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

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

I overcome failure by doing it again and trying not to make the same mistake. — Guy Burnet

Fears are educated into us, and can, if we wish, be educated out. — Karl A. Menninger

Don't stop when you fail. Instead, use your failures to measure your level of success. — Kevin J. Donaldson

Overcast does not always forecast rain neither does difficulty always forecast failure. — Kevin A. McKoy

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

Failure is not important, how you overcome it is. — Nick Vujicic

Dreams come true if we can pursue them by overcoming the fear of failure. — Debasish Mridha

Sometimes, when we want something so badly, we fear failure more than we fear being without that thing. — Matthew J. Kirby

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

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

It's just as difficult to overcome success as it is to overcome failure. — William Walton

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

Adapt to any situation. — Lailah Gifty Akita

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

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

Study skills really aren't the point. Learning is about one's relationship with oneself and one's ability to exert the effort, self-control, and critical self-assessment necessary to achieve the best possible results--and about overcoming risk aversion, failure, distractions, and sheer laziness in pursuit of REAL achievement. This is self-regulated learning. — Linda B. Nilson

Never be disabused of those hopes you believe in otherwise you will go far as far as you can't be. — Auliq Ice

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

Fear will do one thing and one thing only: hold you back — Kya Aliana