Why failing makes you stronger.
15 inspiring quotes.
Encountering failure is normal. It’s common to experience rejection and defeat in life. In fact, before the most successful people hit their breakthrough, they have had innumerable goals that never came to fruition. Nonetheless, they eventually achieved their ambitions because they persisted and stayed focused.
Although people lack transparency regarding their failures, they unfortunately always clamor their success. Due to this false narrative, people start to become insecure when they endure rejection or defeat. They feel invalidated. They feel alone. However, it’s extremely important to normalize failure, and to learn how to overcome rejection with grace. This is because surmounting adversity will only make you stronger. You will develop thick skin that will allow you to conquer future obstacles. The ultimate goal isn’t to seek failure to develop your character. Instead, failure should be rebranded as a tool that will help build your armour.
Read and internalize the fifteen quotes listed below. Try to understand how the wisdom below can help you view failure in a more positive light.
"The one who falls and gets up is stronger than the one who never tried. Do not fear failure but rather fear not trying."
- Roy T. Bennett
"The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure."
- John C. Maxwell
“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.”
- Samuel Beckett
“Success is most often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.”
- Coco Chanel
“Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead-end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.”
- Denis Waitley
“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”
- Paulo Coelho
“When we give ourselves permission to fail, we, at the same time, give ourselves permission to excel.”
- Eloise Ristad
“I’ve come to believe that all my past failure and frustrations were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.”
- Anthony Robbins
“You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.”
- Johnny Cash
“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”
- Truman Capote
“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.”
- Maya Angelou
“It’s not how far you fall, but how high you bounce that counts.”
- Zig Ziglar
“No human ever became interesting by not failing. The more you fail and recover and improve, the better you are as a person. Ever meet someone who’s always had everything work out for them with zero struggle? They usually have the depth of a puddle. Or they don’t exist.”
- Chris Hardwick
“Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.”
- C.S. Lewis
“There is no failure except in no longer trying.”
- Chris Bradford