Embracing Challenges Quotes

Life begins at 40. I could attempt writing. Life is taking me into different directions.

A line from one of my 1997 columns - 'Do one thing every day that scares you' - is now widely attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt, though I have yet to see any evidence that she ever said it and I don't believe she did. She said some things about fear, but not that thing.

It's failure, really, that you grow by, although nobody likes to experience it.

There will be many failures sprinkled among the successes you enjoy.

The more successful you are, the more mistakes you will make. People who don't do anything, don't make mistakes.

You will have more regrets for the things you didn't try than the ones you tried and didn't succeed at.

Failure is just another way to learn how to do something right.

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

Efforts can succeed over time, and not trying ensures that the worst will happen.

Sucking the marrow out of life doesn't mean choking on the bone.

There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success.

Successes teach you nothing. Failures teach you everything. Making mistakes is the most important thing you can do.

There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure-all your life.

Losing is essential to anyone's success. The more you lose, the more you want to win.

You've got to try and do your best, and the failure is what's funny. But you can't be aware of the failure, you've just got to keep trying to do your best.

Failure is where success likes to hide in plain sight.

If the worst happens, if you lose and fail, but you still celebrate coming second because you've given it a red hot go. There is no need to fear failure.

Some people don't like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.

I would say you might encounter many defeats but you must never be defeated, ever. In fact, it might even be necessary to confront defeat. It might be necessary, to get over it, all the way through it, and go on. I would teach her to laugh a lot. Laugh a lot at the - and the silliest things and be very, very serious. I'd teach her to love life, I can bet you that.

We try, and we try, and we fail; and then we go deeper.

If you try you may fail, if you don't try you're guaranteed to fail.

You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you can be satisfied that you've tried. If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk.

An optimist understands that life can be a bumpy road, but at least it is leading somewhere. They learn from mistakes and failures, and are not afraid to fail again.

Life is a daring adventure or nothing.

Successful people don't fear failure, but understand that it's necessary to learn and grow from.