Failure

Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted.

Failure is merely a dress rehearsal for future success. The strength of your character comes not from how you react to your successes, but from how you react to your failures.

There is no such thing as failure. What other people label or might try to call failure, I have learned is just God's way of pointing you in a new direction.

The only way to do great work is to love what you do.

If you have to be perfect, if you have to make a hundred on the test, you may not take the test.

If you never try, you'll never succeed, and as bad as failure feels, success feels so much better.

It really is better to fail than not to try, because if you never try, you'll never succeed, and as bad as failure feels, success feels so much better.

Nobody else is paying as much attention to your failures as you are. You're the only ones who are obsessed with the importance of your own life. To everyone else, it's just a blip on the radar screen.

Great success is not built on success. It is built on failure, frustration and sometimes even calamity.

Not experiencing any failure in life is rarely a sign of perfection. Rather, it's a sign that your goals are not bold enough.