Lance Armstrong Quotes

If failure has the strength to turn your life into bitterness itself, then patience has the strength to turn your life into the sweetest joy. Do not surrender to fate after a single failure. Failure, at most, precedes success.

In life you are going to make mistakes, you're going to fall down, but it's the getting up that counts. Just like in baseball: you'll get a few hits, but most likely, you'll strike out more than you'll get on base. But don't quit. Find your focus, relax, take a deep breath and give it a good swing

I've had great success and I've had catastrophic failure. It's really how you handle the rough stuff that defines you, I think.

I think it's a great thing to have failed in life and then pulled yourself up by the boot straps and actually done something, because then you appreciate it more.

Every entrepreneur knows how agonizingly difficult it is to make the decision to give it your all, knowing that failure is inevitable; the successful ones know that the only way to get back up is through learning from that failure.

You will face many defeats in your life, but never let yourself be defeated.

The point of life is not who falls down. The point is who gets up and how you do it.

Remind thyself, in the darkest moments, that every failure is only a step toward success, ... Your life will never be the same again.

Accomplishment comes from making positive efforts, even in the face of negative circumstances.

Courage allows the successful woman to fail - and to learn powerful lessons from the failure - so that in the end, she didn't fail at all.

it's not how far you fall, but how high you bounce that counts.

Success is often harder to take than failure.

For me, when I get knocked down, I really try to get back up and go at it again. I don't like to give up.

One of the secrets of success is to refuse to let temporary setbacks defeat us.

Never take no personally. Sometimes people tell you no for a reason that has nothing to do with you. You must keep going.

Take risks. Fail. Pick yourself back up again. And always, always remember this: there is no adversity capable of stopping you once the choice to persevere is made.

There's no disgrace in failure, the disgrace is not to try.

People naturally tend toward inertia. That's why self improvement is such a struggle. But that's also why adversity lies at the heart of every success. The process of achievement comes through repeated failures and the constant struggle to climb to a higher level.

I've had a lot of failures as well and rejection. As actor, it's actually mostly rejection but people think it's mostly success because they only see your successes - the films that get made.

In life we have many disappointments. Those who go on to greater things dwell on the disappointments briefly and then move on

... a warrior knows that he cannot change, and yet he makes it his business to try to change, even though he knows that he won't be able to. That's the only advantage a warrior has over the average man. The warrior is never disappointed when he fails to change.

Great achievers are driven, not so much by the pursuit of success, but by the fear of failure.

Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.

If you don't succeed at first, there's no need for the F word (Failure). Pick yourself up and try, try again.

When I hit bottom, I can attack the problem and get to where I want to be.