Michelle Kwan Quotes

I was shaped by my mistakes.

You grow up by making mistakes. I've made a ton of them, but as long as I keep on failing better, I don't mind.

When you fail by your own standards, it's a form of success.

To a certain extent, I enjoy failure. It's part of the game. There's always room to grow; there's room to improve.

Perfectionist is sometimes the wrong word... It means like you're never satisfied, or you're upset by every single failure - any type of failure. And so for me, I don't look at failure as necessarily a bad thing as long as I'm able to learn from it and take something from it, so that next time I'm in that situation I know how to succeed.

I find quite as much material for a lecture in those points wherein I have failed, as in those wherein I have been moderately successful.

I never learned anything from a match that I won.

From success, you learn absolutely nothing. From failure and setbacks conclusions can be drawn. That goes for your private life as well as your career.

That’s what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we’ve changed because of it, and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way is winning.

Would rather learn from failures I'm proud of than take pride in success I don't believe in.

Every failure teaches a man something, to wit, that he will probably fail again.

Making mistakes isn't enough to become great. You must also admit the mistake, and then learn how to turn that mistake into an advantage.

Failures teach you more, there's always something fundamental about them.

You don't get better if you win all the time. You look at yourself more when you lose.

I remember my mistakes more than my success.

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.

We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

As athletes, we're defined by what we've accomplished. Those are what most people remember and what you get paid for. But I learned more from my failures than from all of my successes put together - failures as an athlete and as a person.

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

But I look at failure as education. In that respect, I am so well-educated.

Unfortunately, it is human nature for us to only learn and grow from a place of emptiness. It's hard to learn when we are winning and on top of the world.

Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.

I always wanted to be that guy who pushed the envelope in all kind of ways and tried something new. When I keep that rule going, it always takes me to a new place. There are times when I fail miserably, but I always find myself knowing one more thing better, doing one more thing that I never did before.

I always say the minute I stop making mistakes is the minute I stop learning and I've definitely learned a lot.

Do not take yourself too seriously. You have to learn not to be dismayed at making mistakes. No human being can avoid failures.