Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes

Failure makes me work even harder.

Failure is not the absence of success. Failure is the neglect of trying.

I want to find people who have had to work hard and who have learned from their failures. Perseverance is no guarantee you’ll succeed, but without it, it’s almost guaranteed you won’t.

Life is all about toiling and labor. But obviously I get great joy in confronting challenge and taking risk.

Sometimes it takes a thousand tries to win

Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats. Yet each struggle, each defeat, sharpens your skills and strengths, your courage and your endurance, your ability and your confidence and thus each obstacle is a comrade-in-arms forcing you to become better... or quit. Each rebuff is an opportunity to move forward; turn away from them, avoid them, and you throw away your future.

When the record book on you is finished, let it show your wins and losses. But don't let it show you didn't try.

I haven't always done a good job, and I haven't always been successful - but I know that I have tried.

You can't please everyone, but I've always felt you cannot ultimately lose if you give everything you try 110%. You'll always learn something useful, even from a failure, that can be applied to the next challenge or project.

Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.

I've carried my chip with me my entire career. I've had to fight and claw for every position I've had. I sat on the bench as a junior in high school, I had to compete my senior year in high school to get the job. I competed again at Vanderbilt before having success.

I wouldn't say it came easy, but I understood how to win and I determined how I could do it.

It is not ease, but effort-not facility, but difficulty, makes men. There is, perhaps, no station in life in which difficulties have not to be encountered and overcome before any decided measure of success can be achieved.

I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it

Life is difficult no matter what, but hard work and perseverance make it a lot easier.

Don't give up. You're going to get kicked in the teeth. A lot. Learn to take a hit, then pick yourself up off the floor. Resilience is the true key to success.

It won't be easy, that is why I have always failed where others have succeeded.

A lot of times, people say that if you work hard and never give up, it will always work out, which is a great message. However, that's not always the case.

As you step every day and we're going to see challenges, we going to see failures, we should certainly learn from the failures and be gracious with our successes too as well.

If you give up at the first sign of struggle, you're really not ready to be successful.

Almost anything difficult, any challenge takes time, patience, and hard work.

Failure means you've now learned another valuable lesson that pushes you one step closer to success.

It is failure that is easy. Success is always hard.

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.

Don't judge those who try and fail. Judge only those who fail to try.