20 Power Thoughts to Help You Get Back Up After a Failure
I used to be terrified of failing. Terrified. So terrified that I rarely put myself out there, and when I did, I would half-ass it because at least then I could say I failed because I didn’t give it my all. It would have been worse, I thought, if I had given it my best and my best “wasn’t even good enough”.
After much work developing a growth mindset, I learned to see failure as a reward for growth, drive, and pursuit of purpose. It was a sign I was trying, not a sign I was less-than.
I discovered there is a difference between failing and being a failure.
If you’re struggling to embrace that difference and see failing as a step in the process to living your true purpose, here are 20 of my favorite power thoughts to help.
“Life doesn’t give you a do-over button. It does give you the tools you need to build one.” ~Rachel Boehm, NBC-HWC, PhD Candidate
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” ~Winston Churchill
“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.” ~Paul Coelho
“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.” ~Truman Capote
“The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.” ~Randy Pausch
“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” ~Robert F. Kennedy
“Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.” ~F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Giving up is the only sure way to fail.” ~Gena Showalter
“Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat.” ~Denis Waitley
“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.” ~J.K. Rowling
“Success is measured by how high you bounce when you hit bottom.” ~ George S. Patton
“One fails forward toward success.” ~Charles Kettering
“Everyone trips in public, at least once.” ~Rachel Boehm
“Fear regret more than failure.” ~Taryn Rose
“Just because you fail once doesn’t mean you’re gonna fail at everything.” ~ Marilyn Monroe
“You make mistakes. Mistakes don’t make you.” ~ Maxwell Maltz
“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” ~ Thomas A. Edison
“Failure? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.” ~ Dottie Walters
“Sometimes it takes a wrong turn to get you to the right place.” ~ Mandy Hale,
“Don’t waste your time hating a failure. Failure is a greater teacher than success. Listen, learn, go on.” ~ Clarissa Pinkola Estés
