William Hazlitt Quotes

Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble.

I'm grateful for every opportunity. I learned the hard way.

Failure-it centers me. Too much success has me thinking, All right, what's goin' on?

Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results.

Success is a lousy teacher.

Success is a poor teacher

I hate being wrong, and I hate when people give up.

To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.

Oh, I would love to be a motivational speaker. I have pulled myself out of a million potholes, and I can see the potholes ahead of me. That doesn't mean that I could always do that so perfectly for my own life. I totally fall in potholes.

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.

I've had great success and I've had catastrophic failure. It's really how you handle the rough stuff that defines you, I think.

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

Stronger by weakness, wiser men become.

My desire is to stand up and brush myself off when I make mistakes and ask for forgiveness.

I really believe I'm no different from anyone else. I just had a few challenges I had to learn from at a very early age.

It makes one a better person to have had hardships and to have overcome hardships and not to blame anybody else for your mistakes.

I think everybody has ups and downs in their lives. We learn from the biggest disappointments, right? You learn how to be humble to yourself and to be humble to others.

I ran the effort to bring the 2012 Olympic Games to New York City. We lost - on a global scale. To my surprise, life went on, and I learnt that nobody cares about your failures as much as you do.

You know, when I have a bad game, it continues to humble me and know that, you know, you still have work to do and you still have a lot of people to impress.

My personal philosophy would be don't whine, don't let opportunities pass you by, be willing to work hard, and remember that you don't know as much as you think you do, ever.

You must accept responsibility for your actions, but not the credit for your achievements.

I haven't always made the right decisions.

I'm an incredibly lucky girl. For someone who has made some very foolish mistakes and had some tough lessons to learn very quickly, I am still incredibly lucky.

Big defeats make us learn.