Inspirational Quotes on Obstacles, Failure & Success

1. “Life is either a daring adventure, or it is nothing.” ~ Helen Keller
2. “A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.” ~ David Brinkley
3. “You already have every characteristic necessary for success if you recognize, claim, develop and use them” – Zig Ziglar
4. “The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you’re willing to work.” ~ Oprah Winfrey
5. “History, though, shows us that the people who end up changing the world- the great political, social, scientific, technological, artistic, even sports revolutionaries- are always nuts, until they’re right, and then they’re geniuses.” ~ Dr. John Eliot
6. “Obstacles can’t stop you. Problems can’t stop you. Most of all, other people can’t stop you. Only you can stop you.” – J. Gitomer
7. “Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.” – Sydney Smith
8. “There is no one giant step that does it. It’s a lot of little steps.” – Peter A. Cohen
9. “Problems remain as problems because people are busy defending them rather than finding solutions. Stop wasting time defending your problems and work on addressing them instead.”  - Celestine Chua
10. “As soon as you truly commit to making something happen, the “how” will reveal itself.” – Tony Robbins
11. “Athletes visualize winning 1000s of times before they step on the track. They’ve already won. Other people just don’t know it yet.” – Anonymous
12. “Every artist was first an amateur.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
13. “There is no failure except in no longer trying” – Elbert Hubbard
    
14. “Unless you’re willing to have a go, fail miserably, and have another go, success won’t happen.” Phillip Adams
15. “Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.” – Dale Carnegie
16. “Some give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.” – Herodotus
17. “If you run you stand a chance of losing, but if you don’t run you’ve already lost.” – Barack Obama
18. “Greatest success comes just one step beyond the point at which defeat overtakes you.” – Anonymous
19. “Every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success.” – Napoleon Hill
20. “The greatest achievement was, at first, and for a time, but a dream.” – Napoleon Hill
21. “No one ever is defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.”- Napoleon Hill
22. “A Quitter never wins – and – a Winner never quits.” – Napoleon Hill
23. “Cultivate your desire for success to be greater than the fear of failure; Failure is merely a pitstop between where you stand and success. Failure allows you to learn the fastest; Failure inspires winners and defeats losers.” – Anonymous
24. “Winning means being unafraid to lose.” – Fran Tarkenton
25. “To be successful you don’t need to do extraordinary things, you just need to do ordinary things extraordinarily well.” – Jim Rohn
26. “Success is not built on success. It’s built on failure. It’s built on frustration. Sometimes it’s built on catastrophe.” – Sumner Redstone Chairman
    
27. “Brick walls are there for a reason: they let us prove how badly we want things.” – Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture (Book)
28. “You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals.” – Booker T. Washington
29. “I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” Michael Jordan (Nike ‘Failure’ Commercial; 15 Amazing Commercials To Inspire the Greatness in You)
30. “In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.” – Anthony J. D’Angelo
31. “As soon as anyone starts telling you to be “realistic,” cross that person off your invitation list.” – John Eliot
32. “I haven’t failed. I’ve found 10,000 ways that don’t work.” — Thomas Edison, when inventing the first commercial light bulb.
33. “I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.” – Michael Jordan
34. “I’ve always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come.” – Michael Jordan
35. “Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.” – Michael Jordan
36. “Men are born to succeed, not fail.” – Henry David Thoreau
    
37. “One’s best success comes after their greatest disappointments.” – Henry Ward Beecher
38. “Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit.” – Napoleon Hill
39. “Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” – Robert Francis Kennedy
40. “Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person we become.” – Jim Rohn
41. “The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.” – Dennis Green
42. “But it ain’t about how hard you hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done!” – Rocky Balboa
43. “Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.” – Confucius
44. Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. ~G. Woodberry
45. “Success is what you attract by the person you become.” – Jim Rohn
46. “The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.” ~Robert Kiyosaki
47. “It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.” -Theodore Rosevelt
48. “Failure is not falling down, but refusing to get back up.” – Deamsian Wisdom
49. “That some achieve great success is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.” Abraham Lincoln
50. “I am always doing things I can’t do. That is how I get to do them.” -Pable Picasso
51. “A diamond is a piece of charcoal that handled stress exceptionally well.” – Unknown
52. “There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.”~ Colin Powell
53. “It is our experiences that mold us into who we are….during times of adversity our true character will show.” – Anonymous
54. “You become stronger with every problem you face and every obstacle you overcome.” - Celestine Chua
55. “Winners don’t Quit. That’s why they Win.” – Anonymous
56. “The greatest mistake you can make in life is to continually be afraid you will make one.” – Elbert Hubbard
57. “(Tool+Training+Experience) x Mindset = Goal/Success —- BUT if your mindset is zero then equation is (100 + 100 +100) x 0 = Failure.” – Anonymous
58. “Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” – Albert Schweitzer
59. “Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.” – Teddy Roosevelt
60. “Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.” ~ Woody Allen
61. “The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.” ~Unknown
62. “Everyone faces challenges in life. It’s a matter of how you learn to overcome them and using them to your advantage.” - Celestine Chua
63. “Nothing is impossible.” – Celestine Chua
64. “Impossible, when spelled out, stands for ‘I’m possible’.” – Anonymous
65. “Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.” ~ Marilyn Monroe