“Don't compare yourself to others and feel inadequate. Their journey is not the same as yours and their success doesn't mean you're a failure -- it means your path is different.”— Rania Naim, thoughtcatalog.com
“As best we know, we have one life. In it you have to trust your own voice, your own ideas, your own honesty, your vulnerability and through this you will find your way.”— Charlie Day, facebook.com
“What floats your boat doesn't have to sail someone else's ship. Learn to live with the idea that your life shouldn't warrant other people's approval. There are people out there that want to see you drown, so don't confuse an extra paddle for an anchor.”— Gloria Atanmo, gumroad.com
“We were both driven less by the desire to succeed than by an all-pervasive fear of failure.”— Emily Giffin, amazon.com
“Bad people succeed and good people fail, but that's not the end of the story. Miracles happen that nobody sees, and among us walk heroes who are never recognized, and people live in loneliness because they cannot believe they are loved.”— Dean Koontz, amazon.com
“Success unshared is failure. If you’ve ‘made it’ and don’t help others out along the way— if you don’t do something to make the planet a better place— you’re not successful at all; you are a failure. But”— Gillian Zoe Segal, amazon.com
“You never climb a mountain to get to the middle; you climb it to get to the top.”— Gillian Zoe Segal, amazon.com
“Quite honestly I think it is way more terrifying to be boring than to be a failure.”— Grace Helbig, huffingtonpost.com
“Failure teaches us that life is but a draft, an endless rehearsal of a show that will never play.”— Guillaume Laurant, Hipolito, Artus de Penguern, imdb.com
“Failed writer, failed life... I love the word 'fail.' Failure is human destiny.”— Guillaume Laurant, Hipolito, Artus de Penguern, imdb.com
“You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.”— Marion Wright Edelman, pinterest.com
“Do not think about failure. Remember that even stars fall sometimes. And when they do, people wish on them.”— Maddie Godfrey, facebook.com
“Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.”— Neil deGrasse Tyson, twitter.com
“Growing up, I had the weird fantasy list: I wanted to be Alice Cooper, Steven Spielberg, and Stan Lee. You have to have almost psychotic drive, because you're going to have years of failure.”— Rob Zombie, menshealth.com
“Perfectionism is searching for faults to justify low self-esteem. It is a guaranteed failure and fantasy.”— Brittany Burgunder, amazon.com
“We must not only strike the iron while it is hot but strike it till it is not made hot.”— Samuel Smiles, amazon.com