“If you remain the symbol of success, the symbol belongs to you and if you remain the symbol of failure, the symbol belongs to the world”
“An artist paints his picture not in a few hours but in all the years of experience before he takes up the brush, and it is the same with failure.”
Source: The Tenth Man
“The End is the Beginning
Failure is not the end of the line,
It does not mean “stop” or give up
It means, take a break,
Reflect, gain clarity,
Redirect your energy
And try again.”
Source: A Shore of Spiritual Shells: Poetry For Inner Strength And Faith
“Seek out success but don’t be fearful of failure along the way.”
Source: Healthy Profits: How to promote healthy choices that grow your food business
“Research is like drowning. When drowning in water you need to swim towards the surface. When drowning in failures you need to swim towards discovery.”
“Happily everafter is a disney myth,
In real life there's only messy evernow.
Master the craft of surfing the mess,
World will bathe in your sapient glow.”
Source: Yüz Şiirlerin Yüzüğü (Ring of 100 Poems, Bilingual Edition): 100 Turkish Poems with Translations
“[...] insist upon remembering. Because we know that the lessons of yesterday's loss become the fuel for tomorrow's win.”
Source: WOLFPACK: How to Come Together, Unleash Our Power, and Change the Game
“If I'm going to fall, as long as I fall forward I'm still going in the right direction.”
“Sucking can be epic and important when it comes to sex, love, marriage, work, birth, death. That means that learning to accept sucking when the stakes are low will ultimately help us when we suck at the big stuff.”
Source: It's Great to Suck at Something: The Unexpected Joy of Wiping Out and What It Can Teach Us About Patience, Resilience, and the Stuff that Really Matters
“For many of us, our happiest, most joyful stories are from moments when-at the time-we experienced an acute form of failure. Broken bones and embarrassment and chagrin. Then, with time, we turn that putatively negative pathway into a hilarious one. It's just what we do. And it works.”
Source: It's Great to Suck at Something: The Unexpected Joy of Wiping Out and What It Can Teach Us About Patience, Resilience, and the Stuff that Really Matters