Motivational Quotes About Overcoming Failure

"If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward."

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

"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat."

"I've missed more than 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."

"Never give up. Today is hard, tomorrow will be worse, but the day after tomorrow will be sunshine."

"You never lose in business, either you win or you learn."

"Don’t be afraid to fail. Failure teaches us the most valuable lessons."

"Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength."

"There’s no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move you in another direction."

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

"You gotta find that inner strength and just pull that s**t out of you. And get that motivation to not give up and not be a quitter, no matter how bad you wanna just fall on your face and collapse."

"Never be ashamed of trying. Effortlessness is a myth."

"You can't be afraid to fail. It's the only way you succeed – you're not gonna succeed all the time, and I know that."

"Embrace adversity and use it as fuel to drive your determination."

"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing."

"It’s not whether you get knocked down; it’s whether you get up."

"Believe you can and you're halfway there."

"I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying."

"Once you know what failure feels like, determination chases success."

"A champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall."

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

"Failure is not the outcome. Failure is not trying."

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

"You can fail at what you don’t want, so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love."

"It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all."

"You never know how strong you are until being strong is your only choice."

"Winners never quit and quitters never win."

"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be."

"Don’t be afraid to fail. Be afraid not to try."

"Grind and sweat, toil and bleed, face the abyss. It's all part of becoming an overnight success."

"I would rather be a failed entrepreneur than someone who never tried. Because even a failed entrepreneur has the skill set to make it on their own."

"I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six 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."

"The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. That's the essence of it."

"It doesn’t matter how many times you have failed. You only have to be right once."

"Whatever your dream is, every single day you will be faced with challenges, but you have to keep moving forward."

"If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don’t back down."

"You just have to keep moving forward. You just have to keep doing something, seizing the next opportunity, staying open to trying something new."

"Success is not the absence of failure; it's the persistence through failure."

"Fall down seven times; get up eight."

"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."

"You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over."

"Fail big! Today’s the beginning of the rest of your life."

"Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it."

"Everything negative-pressure, challenges-is all an opportunity for me to rise."

"Everything negative - pressure, challenges - is all an opportunity for me to rise."

"I don’t like to lose - at anything - yet I’ve grown most not from victories, but setbacks."

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts."

"All defeats are temporary. There is no one person with a permanent black cloud following them."

"Real champions fight through adversity."

"When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."

"Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough."

"Pain doesn’t tell you when you ought to stop. Pain is the little voice in your head that tries to hold you back because it knows if you continue you will change."

"Every no gets me closer to a yes."

"Failure isn’t the enemy. Giving up is. Mistakes teach. Setbacks sharpen skills."

"Things won't go perfect. It's all about how you adapt from those things and learn from mistakes."

"If you’re not making mistakes, then you’re not doing anything. I’m positive that a doer makes mistakes."

"If you don’t fail, you’re not even trying."

"The same thing that’s true in gymnastics is also true in life: You can’t go back. The best you can do is forgive yourself, take a deep breath, and get to work on the next challenge."

"Sometimes, you have to make your own way when no one else believes in you."

"Believe in your dreams, work hard, and never give up; miracles can happen."

"We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope."

"Failure is an event, not a person."

"Don’t be afraid to fail big, to dream big."

"It doesn’t matter who you are or where you come from; you can make it."

"Every week is different for me, so I understand that I have to turn challenges into opportunities, demonstrating that persistence and courage pay off."

"The more you experience the challenge of failure, the stronger and wiser you become."

"The mind adapts and converts to its own purposes the obstacle to our acting."

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

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

"Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping stone to greatness."

"I think sometimes in life the biggest challenges end up being the best things that happen in your life."

"Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations."

"Fall seven times, stand up eight."

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

"From error to error one discovers the entire truth."

"Difficult doesn't mean impossible. It simply means you have to work harder."

"Every strike brings me closer to the next home run."

"Sometimes you win, sometimes you learn."

"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm."

"Success is not about luck, it's about hard work and learning from failure."

"There is no failure except in no longer trying."

"One fails forward toward success."

"The best teacher is experience learned from failures."

"Success is what happens after you have survived all your mistakes."