Iyanla Vanzant Quotes

Failure doesn't mean anything, it just means changing paths.

For all of us it’s the things that won’t work that keep our interest.

Reason, alas, does not remove mountains. It only tries to walk around them, and see what is on the other side.

My mother was a continual source of wisdom and great advice...she taught me that there is always a way around a problem-you've just got to find it. Keep trying doors; one will eventually open. She also taught me to accept failure as part and parcel of life. It's not the opposite of success; it's an integral part of success. I talk a lot about learning to become fearless in your approach to life. But fearlessness is not the absence of fear. It's the mastery of fear. It's all about getting up one more time than you fall down.

The nature of process, to one degree or another, involves failure. You have at it. It doesn’t work. You keep pushing. It gets better. But it’s not good. It gets worse. You got at it again. Then you desperately stab at it, believing “this isn’t going to work.” And it does!

What we sometimes consider a stumbling block is rather a rock we can step on.

There are no dead ends, just detours.

Sometimes if you want to achieve something great, there will be curveballs. You just have to dodge them every once in a while.

I'm learning along the way, and there's going to be some little bumps and bruises, but as long as I keep rolling with the punches, I will keep moving up.

If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it.

To THINK BIG and to use our talents doesn't mean we won't have difficulties along the way. We will - we all do... If we choose to see the obstacles in our path as barriers, we stop trying. "We can't win," we moan. "They won't let us win."

If the first plan which you adopt does not work successfully, replace it with a new plan; if this new plan fails to work, replace it in turn with still another, and so on, until you find a plan which does work. Right here is the point at which the majority of men meet with failure, because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

People always say to me, "What if it doesn't work?" If it doesn't work, we redouble our effort. We're not going to cry like a bunch of babies. We're going to redouble our effort.

You are fortunate if you have learned the difference between temporary defeat and failure, more fortunate still if you have learned the truth that the very seed of success is dormant in every defeat that you experience.

As you step every day and we're going to see challenges, we going to see failures, we should certainly learn from the failures and be gracious with our successes too as well.

Failure is where success likes to hide in plain sight.

I haven't gotten stuck with something because I just keep going, and I keep doing different things.

Obstacles are only opportunities to succeed or fail; how we handle them determines what will happen.

The world loves to tell you how difficult things are, and the world's not exaggerating. But difficult doesn't mean impossible, and out of the bajillions of things in this universe that you can't control, what you can control is how hard you try, and if or when to pack it in.

You must expect failure after failure after failure before you succeed.

Problems are the cutting edge that distinguishes between success and failure. Problems ... create our courage and wisdom.

When the path becomes difficult, that's no reason to give up. In fact, it means you're making real progress.

There's a key for every door, and if you can't find it, you can make one. That's always an option.

Great success is built on failure, frustration, even catastrophe.