Darcey Bussell Quotes

Everybody in life has something that they get knocked down on. The object lesson here is not that you get knocked down - it is that you get up.

Not many people get up after a setback or two. But those who do make the impossible come true.

I've experienced a lot of successes. I've experienced a lot of failures. I've been able to get back up on my feet and keep going.

There's an old expression about falling off a horse. You get back on and you ride that bad boy into town.

No one wants to quit when he's losing and no one wants to quit when he's winning.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

Success is falling nine times and getting up ten.

I tried and failed. I tried again and again and succeeded.

Success is not the absence of failure; it's the persistence through failure.

You either lose your way or you break through the hardships and play well. There is a massive difference.

If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it.

Overcoming hardships and working around and through their obstacles to achieve an education is what I call a true success.

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

Never give up! Failure and rejection are only the first step to succeeding.

Well, I think that there's a very thin dividing line between success and failure.

When I needed to overcome the low expectations of others or the bias that would be expressed in one circumstance or another, I'd keep on keeping on. And I climb over the obstacle, go around it, dig under it, fly over it. That's what kept me going. Otherwise I would have never been an astrophysicist.

Some of my greatest pleasures have come from finding ways to overcome obstacles.

In great attempts, it is glorious even to fail.

The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall.

I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.

Perseverance and perspective until victory.

A champion is someone who gets up when he can't.

The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.