Marvin J. Ashton Quotes

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

A basic truth of management - if not of life - is that nearly everything looks like a failure in the middle.

Most success springs from an obstacle or failure.

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

It takes facing obstacles to grow strong enough to overcome them.

I feel like, sometimes, when things are just handed to people, in a way, right away, you don't get a sense of what the rejection and the struggle is like that comes along with life.

Failure is success training.

If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it.

Success is sometimes the outcome of a whole string of failures.

Many successful people have found opportunities in failure and adversity that they could not recognize in more favorable circumstances.

We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

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

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.

Failure in life does not matter; the greatest misfortune is standing still.

All great success is preceded by failure.

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.

Obstacles are found everywhere, and in overcoming them we nourish ourselves.

Success is buried in the garden of failure.

People naturally tend toward inertia. That's why self improvement is such a struggle. But that's also why adversity lies at the heart of every success. The process of achievement comes through repeated failures and the constant struggle to climb to a higher level.

Mistakes are the stepping stones to success.

Do not bring me your successes; they weaken me. Bring me your problems; they strengthen me.

Failure makes me work even harder.

Success often lies just the other side of failure.

There is a vast difference between failure and temporary defeat.

Failure doesn't mean anything, it just means changing paths.