Shannon Miller Quotes

You learn more from the flops than from the hits.

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

I mean, the things you think will never happen, you have to confront; those things that come into your life that you thought you never could deal with, you do.

There are going to be things I'm not going to be great at, times when I make mistakes, 100%.

It's tough, but you learn your lesson from all the mistakes you make.

When your way doesn't work, don't be disheartened. You must be willing to try another way. A closed door doesn't mean you have been cut off permanently. It is a challenge, an obstacle, a tool to be used.

I've blundered my way through life.

I'm not sure I'd go back and do anything over in my life. I've definitely had my fair share of failures and moments where I wasted my time or that of other people, but if I did those moments over, I'd have missed out on so many lessons.

I have a message for the young kids. Life is about obstacles, endeavors in life are not to be overlooked.

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.

America is big enough to admit when it's wrong and confident enough to learn from its mistakes.

In a total work, the failures have their not unimportant place.

I didn't like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish.

I'll never be a non-stumbler. I'll be a forgiven stumbler, but never a non-stumbler.

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.

Everything's not going to go perfect. You're going to have some losses that you're going to have to bounce back from and some things that are a little unforeseen that you're going to have to deal with.

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

I've done movies that were maybe not worth it, but I try to take the best from every experience. You learn more from bad experiences sometimes. It gives you more will to overcome your mistakes. They give you determination.

All I know is that I've made some big screw-ups, and I've done some things that have done all right. I just keep trying to learn from the mistakes I've made.

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.

Mistakes show us what we need to learn.

If everything was perfect, you would never learn and you would never grow.

The more I act, the harder it gets, since I feel like I still have so much to learn. Whenever I embark on a new project, it always feels like the first time. If it were easy to me and I felt like I knew everything, my acting might have been different. I think the feeling of 'newness' keeps me on my toes and concentrated.

I have found that I always learn more from my mistakes than from my successes. If you aren't making some mistakes, you aren't taking enough chances.

I thank God for my failures. Maybe not at the time but after some reflection. I never feel like a failure just because something I tried has failed.