Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

Defeats and failures are great developers of character. They have made the giants of our race by giving Titanic muscles, brawny sinews, and far-reaching intellects.

Losing makes you strong.

We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

We must learn from misfortune the means of future strength.

I was lucky in that I had a mother that was full of this colloquial wisdom and she used to say to me 'You know, failure is not the opposite of success, it's the stepping stone to success. There is nobody who has not failed along the way.' So I think its very important for young women, especially as they are starting in life, to recognize that because otherwise, they only see people's success. So, when I speak, I speak of my failures.

You don't run from the bad things in life; learn from them, because your worst is what will lead you to your best.

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.

You learn as much from failure as from success, Dad always says. Though no one admires you for it.

What people call success is only preparation for the next failure.

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.

You are fortunate if you have learned the difference between temporary defeat and failure, more fortunate still if you have learned the truth that the very seed of success is dormant in every defeat that you experience.

Failure is my specialty.

We seem to gain wisdom more readily through our failures than through our successes. We always think of failure as the antithesis of success, but it isn't. Success often lies just the other side of failure.

Mistakes are the stepping stones to success.

I need people who look at adversity as a challenge and failure as a learning opportunity.

Great success is built on failure, frustration, even catastrophe.

If you use disappointments as sort of mid- semester exams, for learning, you will learn that every disappointment you overcome makes you stronger- and wiser. The greatest success stories have been lived by those who had to grow strong and wise in that very way.

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.

You learn the most from life's hardest knocks.

I've learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.

Big defeats make us learn.

You learn a lot of about people in failure.

For the longest time, I was horrified to hear the word 'failure,' but I've come to realize that we all fail. It's just a part of life. We all fall. It's how you rebound that shows the type of person you are.

I don't define myself by my successes. I define myself by adversity and how I've persevered.

You learn from your mistakes and you learn from your failures. It's how you get up that defines you to a certain extent.