You become strong by defying defeat and by turning loss into gain and failure to success.
For me, the greatest hurdle to success has always been failure.
Cultivate your desire for success to be greater than the fear of failure; Failure is merely a pitstop between where you stand and success. Failure allows you to learn the fastest; Failure inspires winners and defeats losers.
Addiction is a very compelling subject for literature - especially now that it's nearly impossible to come out of adult experience without some addiction - to substances, sure, but also to love, sex, success, failure, power.
Acknowledging the lucky breaks are paramount to enjoying life. Not being defensive about our successes/failures. So, in short.
The insolence of base minds in success is boundless; and would scarce admit of a comparison, did not they themselves furnish us with one in the degrees of their abjection when evil returns upon them.
I've never been able to contemplate failure. Success is everything.
Children of the middle years do not do their learning unaffected by attendant feelings of interest, boredom, success, failure, chagrin, joy, humiliation, pleasure, distress and delight. They are whole children responding in a total way, and what they feel is a constant factor that can be constructive or destructive in any learning situation.
Whatever your plan, you never invest your own self-worth in its ultimate success or failure.
If you're going to define me properly, you must think in terms of my failures as well as my successes.
Small successes are still successes; great failures are still failures.
It is easier to move from failure to success in from excuses to success.
To the eye of failure success is an accident.
Recovering from failure is often easier than building from success.
Failure is not the absence of success. Failure is the neglect of trying.
Life is a mirror. You get what you see. If you project anger into the mirror, that is what you get back. If you project joy into the mirror, it reflects joy right back to you. Failure for failure. Success for success. What you project is what is reflected back to you.
When I was growing up, my dad would encourage my brother and I to fail. We would be sitting at the dinner table and he would ask, 'So what did you guys fail at this week?' If we didn't have something to contribute, he would be disappointed. When I did fail at something, he'd high-five me. What I didn't realize at the time was that he was completely reframing my definition of failure at a young age. To me, failure means not trying; failure isn't the outcome. If I have to look at myself in the mirror and say, 'I didn't try that because I was scared,' that is failure.
Success is on the same road as failure; success is just a little further down the road.
The challenge of education is not to prepare a person for success, but to prepare him for failure.
Focus on the possibilities for success, not on the potential for failure
Success without fulfillment is failure.
I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.
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