Michelle Kwan Quotes

Failure happens to everyone in this game. It's not something worth harping on. What is worth focusing on is how you respond to that failure.

You learn more from defeats and it makes you hungry to go and improve the next time. That's the way I have dealt with things during my whole career.

There's nothing wrong with failing if you learn from it, and I've failed out here plenty.

Don't be frightened of failure. It makes you stronger if you learn from your mistakes.

I eventually became proud of my strikeouts, because each one represented another learning experience.

Failure is a great teacher, and I think when you make mistakes and you recover from them and you treat them as valuable learning experiences, then you've got something to share.

Sometimes you can win, and you are preparing to disrupt yourself. Sometimes you don't win, but you are preparing yourself to be better.

From my three loses in my entire career I've always learned from them and came back stronger.

I don't believe in make-or-break moments in your life. If you screw something up, it can knock you down, but that only means you'll be better when you get back to where you were before.

If you've been hit, if you've been put down, if you've lost, that next time you come out, you have to make a testament: you have to make a demonstration, a showing, that it's not going to happen again.

How you succeed is how you deal with failure. Whatever way you dress it up, something hasn't worked.

There's no more powerful lesson than knowing that your setbacks will one day help you succeed.

What if the Secret to Success is Failure?.

Success teaches us nothing; only failure teaches.

Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over gain, and you will grow stronger until have accomplished a purpose - not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember.

Don't be afraid to fail. For the love of God, don't be afraid to fail, because you're going to fail. So try to fail as hard as you can is what I would say, because you're always going to get up and you're going to learn something from it.

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.

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

You are going to fail, and failing, for me, is as joyful as succeeding. Failing means that there is something to learn, and we can improve and do it better next time.

Success is not built on success. It's built on failure. It's built on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe.

When you fail you learn from the mistakes you made and it motivates you to work even harder.

It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

You have to be able to accept failure to get better.

Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach.