Martha Graham Quotes

One who does not fall, does not stand up.

Success is not in never failing, but rising everytime you fall!

You just have to learn how to fall down and get back up again. You just have to keep going.

There are an infinity of angles at which one falls, only one at which one stands.

But we fall only that we might rise, Alfred. All of us fall; all of us, as you say, screw up. Falling is not important. It is how we get up after the fall that's important.

If you fall sometimes, you must not be discouraged.

"Failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.

Most important thing in life is learning how to fall.

You're going to fall down, but the world doesn't care how many times you fall down, as long as it's one fewer than the numbers of times you get back up.

My mother was a continual source of wisdom and great advice...she taught me that there is always a way around a problem-you've just got to find it. Keep trying doors; one will eventually open. She also taught me to accept failure as part and parcel of life. It's not the opposite of success; it's an integral part of success. I talk a lot about learning to become fearless in your approach to life. But fearlessness is not the absence of fear. It's the mastery of fear. It's all about getting up one more time than you fall down.

What defines us is how well we rise after we fall.

Failure is not a one-time event; it's how you deal with life along the way. Until you breathe your last breath, you're still in the process, and there is still time to turn things around for the better.

And sometimes when you fall... you fly...

...A man can only stumble for so long before he either falls or stands up straight.

It would be so great if it were possible to go through life without making a single mistake but there is no such path. Falling, tripping, losing the way, making mistakes, little by little, walking one step at a time, this is the only way.

Sometimes, you fall into a ditch without knowing it is there, without seeing it, but you try to come out of it. If you fall again, you will jump out again.

The most important lesson to remember is that failure is inevitable, but so is success, so rebound.

'Fail hard, fail fast, fail often. It's the key to success.' This one I learned from experience!

You take whatever works from wherever you can find it, and you keep moving toward the light.

Fall down nine times, get up ten.

We Don't always succeed in what we try, certainly not by the world's standards, but I think you'll find it's the willingness to keep trying that matters most.

O human race, born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou so fall?

The more failure you can accept, the greater your chance of success.

Here's what I think," I say and my voice is stronger and thoughts are coming, thoughts that trickle into my noise like whispers of truth. "I think maybe everybody falls," I say. "I think maybe we all do. And I don't think that's the asking." I pull on her arms gently to make sure she's listening. "I think the asking is whether we get back up again.