Mary Engelbreit Quotes

Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

A failure isn't a failure if it prepares you for success tomorrow.

All the best things that happened to me happened after I was rejected. I knew the power of getting past no.

I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.

Failure is just another step…

I don't mind failing, because I see it as an opportunity to try again and eventually succeed. Having this attitude and sharing it with young girls encourages them.

Every 'no' I ever received was an inch closer to a 'yes.'

One has to remember that every failure can be a stepping stone to something better.

The best advice my dad ever gave me is, ‘No does not mean never. It just means not yet.’ So not every audition, you’re gonna get but as long as you know it wasn’t meant for you then you’ll get the next one.

You must think of failure and defeat as the spring boards to new achievements, and to the next level of accomplishment.

You are fortunate if you have learned the difference between temporary defeat and failure, more fortunate still if you have learned the truth that the very seed of success is dormant in every defeat that you experience.

Failure is where success likes to hide in plain sight.

In these strenuous times, we are likely to become morbid and look constantly on the dark side of life, and spend entirely too much time considering and brooding over what we can't do, rather than what we can do, and instead of growing morose and despondent over opportunities either real or imaginary that are shut from us, let us rejoice at the many unexplored fields in which there is unlimited fame and fortune to the successful explorer and upon which there is no color line; simply the survival of the fittest.

You don’t always win, but every time you lose, you get better.

I need people who look at adversity as a challenge and failure as a learning opportunity.

The people who are good in the long run fail a lot, especially at the beginning. So, when you fail early, it might be worth realizing that this is part of the deal, the price you pay for being good in the long run. Every rejection is a gift. A chance to learn and to do it better next time. An opportunity to figure out how to bounce, not break. Don't waste them.

Success often lies just the other side of failure.

Rejection is a gift and failure is the best educator, so when someone knocks you down, get back up!

If at first you don't succeed-try, try again. Don't think of it as failure. Think of it as timed-release success.

Erase the word "failure" from your vocabulary. No case is ever truly closed, and no challenge is ever over.

Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

The biggest hurdle is rejection. Any business you start, be ready for it. The difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is the successful people do all the things the unsuccessful people don't want to do. When 10 doors are slammed in your face, go to door number 11 enthusiastically, with a smile on your face.

Without failure there is no achievement.