Failure is the ultimate motivator, the supreme teacher, and the definitive guarantee of life. Failure is what makes success so addictive.
Those who envy the success of others are normally ignorant to the sacrifices, failures, and dedication that it took for them to get there.
Those who envy the success of others are normally ignorant to the sacrafices, failures, and dedication that it took for them to get there
As with all commandments, gratitude is a description of a successful mode of living. The thankful heart opens our eyes to a multitude of blessings that continually surround us.
Look at each failure as a deposit made into the account that will help you write the check for your next significant success.
To be frank, my belief is if you just keep your head down and work, and you have the fortune to be successful, there really aren't moments that change you.
Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, and the temporary failures.
We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.
The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape.
What strikes me is that there's a very fine line between success and failure. Just one ingredient can make the difference.
Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances necessarily involves failure, if only in the specifically technical sense of entering spaces where prevailing criteria of success scarcely apply.
As kids we're not taught how to deal with success; we're taught how to deal with failure. If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. If at first you succeed, then what?
Success and failure are emotional and physiological experiences. We need to deal with them in a way that is present and calm.
Comedy was my sport. It taught me how to roll with the punches. Failure is the exact same as success when it comes to comedy because it just keeps coming. It never stops.
I think our failure in the production of good town churches of distinctive character must have struck you often, as it has me, when contrasted with our comparative success in country churches.
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
So nevertheless, what I'm saying is that what one is - one's parameters are constantly narrowed by one's success, and my desire is to widen my field even if I risk failure.
I think success has no rules, but you can learn a great deal from failure.
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.
Fact: From quitting smoking to skiing, we succeed to the degree we try, fail, and learn. Studies show that people who worry about mistakes shut down, but those who are relaxed about doing badly soon learn to do well. Success is built on failure.
Sometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success, and in some ways it's better to have failure at the beginning of your career, or your life.
