When it comes to life after you file for divorce (or have it filed on you), failure is one of the biggest concerns you will have. It can freeze you up and keep you from making good decisions — or any decisions at all — in business and your personal life. To help you with this side effect of the divorce forms, we’ve put together 11 quotes on failure for divorced people. Let’s get started.
- Michael Jordan: “I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.”
- Steve Jobs: “Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure — these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson: “The greatest glory in living lies not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall.”
- E.O. Wilson: “You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give.”
- Zig Ziglar: “Remember that failure is an event, not a person.”
- Richard Yates: “If you don’t try at anything, you can’t fail… it takes back bone to lead the life you want.”
- Thomas Edison: “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
- Denis Waitley: “Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.”
- J.M. Barrie: “We are all failures – at least the best of us are.”
- Johnny Cash: “You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don’t try to forget the mistakes, but you don’t dwell on it. You don’t let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.”
- Bill Cosby: “I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everyone.”
Once your divorce papers are final, be prepared for the fear of failure and refer back to these quotes often. Good luck!
