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Travel is about failure or overcoming obstacles, overcoming failures. When a traveler is having lots of good luck, that is not a happy book. That's a book you say, well, I don't need that. I want a life lesson. I want to find out - I want a journey that reflects my life.
Sep 16, 2025
Fears are educated into us, and can, if we wish, be educated out.
Failure seems to be nature's plan for preparing us for great responsibilities.
In a world flagrant with the failures of civilization, what is there particularly immortal about our own?
Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.
You can't have any successes unless you can accept failure.
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
He that is down needs fear no fall.
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
Remember that failure is an event, not a person.
No man is a failure who is enjoying life.
There is no impossibility to him who stands prepared to conquer every hazard. The fearful are the failing.
You always pass failure on the way to success.
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
Every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success.
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by doing the thing which you think you cannot do.
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.
To move forward today, you must learn to say good-bye to yesterday's hurts, tragedies and baggage. You can't build a monument to past problems and fail forward.
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
It is not the failure of others to appreciate your abilities that should trouble you, but rather your failure to appreciate theirs.
If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
Not failure, but low aim, is crime.
I really don't think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don't mind the failure but I can't imagine that I'd forgive myself if I didn't try.
Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.
I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.
History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.
Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
One who fears failure limits his activities.
Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage.
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.
There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.
Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.