8 Quotes On Failure That Will Inspire You To Succeed
No great success was ever achieved without failure. It may be one epic failure. Or a series of failures – such as Edison’s10,000 attempts to create a light bulb. But, whether we like it or not, failure is a necessary stepping stone to achieving our dreams.
Here we gave a TED-talk on the topic. And now — this collection of 8 quotes that will hopefully inspire you to look at failure differently.
1. «Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time». George Bernard Shaw
2. «You don’t learn from successes; you don’t learn from awards; you don’t learn from celebrity; you only learn from wounds and scars and mistakes and failures. And that’s the truth». Jane Fonda
3. «When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work». George Bernard Shaw
4. «Failures are infinitely more instructive than successes». George Clooney
5. «Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure». Paulo Coelho
6. «I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed». Michael Jordan
7. «There are some people who live 70 years and there some people who live one year 70 times, repeating what they’re doing over and over». Wayne Dyer
8. «Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure — these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important». Steve Jobs
Glossary
Awards | Награды | Pride | Гордость |
Wounds and scars | Раны и шрамы | Fear of embarrassment | Страх позора |
Nine out of ten | Девять из десяти | In the face of death | Перед лицом смерти |
External expectations | Ожидания от других | Succeed | Быть успешным |