Margaret Drabble Quotes

If you go out there with doubts or unsure what's going to happen, it's not going to go your way.

Nothing is ever a setback. If anything, it just motivates you for what's next.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

Having the positive belief that it will all be O.K. just means that you hustle and make it work because failure is not even an option in your own mind.

Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.

When you believe in your dream and your vision, then it begins to attract its own resources. No one was born to be a failure.

Your attitude towards failure determines your altitude after failure.

People will tell you that you can't do it, no matter what you are trying to do, so you just have to really keep at it.

If you have passion, there is no need for excuses because your enthusiasm will trump any negative reasoning you might come up with. Enthusiasm makes excuses a nonissue.

As an outside; don't worry about failure, because failure will take care of itself. Focus on success.

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.

You don't go into anything contemplating failure, because if you did, you wouldn't make it.

Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.

If you do not believe you can do it then you have no chance at all.

You just have to believe in yourself when you've got something, and just keep pounding on the door, because if you pound long enough, somebody is going to open it.

I haven't fallen that much, but when I have, it's usually in the attempt to do something worthwhile. As for recovery, you just have to get up!

He who says it cannot be done should get out of the way of the one who is doing it.

You can't let concerns stop you; they drive you and they motivate you.

You just go out there and do the best you can. If it hits, it hits. And if it doesn't, you go on to the next thing.

True hopefulness and optimism is what leads one to dare. It is also what lifts one back up to dare again after a failed attempt.

Everything is possible when you believe and you work hard.

I was never necessarily conscious of my failures when I attempted something and it didn't work out, because I feel like I'm so in tune with my purpose I never necessarily acknowledge that.

In life, everything is possible. If you believe and have faith in yourself, then it can happen.