Octavia Spencer Quotes

I don't take success and failure seriously. The only thing I do seriously is march forward. If I fall, I get up and march again.

If one dream dies, dream another dream. If you get knocked down, get back up and go again.

You always pass failure on your way to success.

Look, I've lost before. And there's always a tomorrow.

I always think I have a chance, and I always give it all I've got.

Don't give up at the first hurdle you encounter.

I may fail today, but if I have another idea tomorrow, maybe it will work.

I often think that all the difficulties we encounter only give us the more strength if we keep hold of our work, and we must not now give up while in the prime of life. It is best to keep trying, and by and by the opportunity will come. If we have given up, then we shall not be ready for it when it does come.

When people say you can't do it - that it's impossible - never lose hope. Just because they couldn't doesn't mean you can't.

You always think, no matter how many times you fail, that the next time you will succeed. Otherwise you wouldn't keep trying.

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

We all fail - I have failed so many times, but it never discourages me. I just pick up and go.

Success isn't permanent and failure isn't fatal.

People will tell you that you can't do it, no matter what you are trying to do, so you just have to really keep at it.

I've always believed no matter how many shots I miss, I'm going to make the next one.

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.

The more times I was turned down, the more I believed I was getting closer to making it. A lot of people in Korea say that failure is the mother of success, so I believed that more times I failed, the more likely I was to succeed.

There is going to be a hundred thousand doors slammed in your face before one opens, so feel ok about taking rejection.

Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.

You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.

You tell your kids that no matter what, you set your goals and you go for them. Whatever it is you achieve, never give up. You want your kids to have that good attitude, the confidence, and the will power to believe in themselves.

I always think about what's the difference between being tenacious and having an inability to learn from failures. The difference between the homeless guy who wanted to be a great painter and the guy who is a great painter could be anything.

Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.