Harry Emerson Fosdick Quotes

I'm never at my worst because even at my lowest, its a learning experience. It's something that I'll bounce ideas off. I can take negatives and flip them to positives at all times.

Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure.

In my early career, there were more negative lessons than positive ones. But I don't think I was looking for the positives enough.

If you let tragedies stop you along the way, then you're never going to grow as a person.

A good poem about failure is a success.

You need not spend your life wallowing in failure, ignorance, grief, poverty, shame and self-pity. There is a better way to live.

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.

A failure remains a failure only if we refuse to learn from it. Any situation that teaches us greater humility, sobriety, wisdom about self and others, responsibility, forgiveness, depth of reflection, and better decision making -\-\teaching us what's truly important-\-\is not an ultimate failure. Sometimes what we deem a failure at the time it happens actually serves to foster a change within us that creates an even greater success down the road.

People learn from failure or from lack of success.

Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.

We are able to learn from a failure, but perhaps not much from a success!

If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect, we will immediately feel overwhelmed.

Learn from the negative as well as the positive, from the failures as well as the successes.

Every failure is a blessing in disguise, providing it teaches some needed lesson one could not have learned without it. Most so-called Failures are only temporary defeats.

When you lose, don't lose the lesson.

You learn from the mistakes you make and from the mistakes other people make. The truth is, you don't learn from success; you learn from failure.

Failure is an event, it is not a person.

Every challenge is nothing more than a chance to make things better.

I have learnt more from my failures than my successes.

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.

I was never at my best when I was at my worst. When I did do good stuff in the past, it was because I was able to transcend the parts of my being that weren't healthy.

Mistakes are nothing to be ashamed of.

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.

I think it's my personality to overcome things, learn from them and become stronger, both personally and professionally. To be honest, I welcome those hardships.