Matt Emmons Quotes

I think the personal stories that I tell in my life, I think, sort of do add up to say that you can fail and fail and fail again and continue to move forward.

When you are having a rough day... you think you are failing. But failure is a part of life. It's about building character and growing.

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.

It's failure, really, that you grow by, although nobody likes to experience it.

If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.

Failure is an enigma. You worry about it, and it teaches you something.

Your ability to adapt to failure, and navigate your way out of it, absolutely 100 percent makes you who you are.

You can either get bitter, or you can get better.

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

You know, be able to do something great in your life, you're gonna have to realize your failures. You're gonna have to embrace them and figure out how to overcome it.

But I look at failure as education. In that respect, I am so well-educated.

Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.

I've failed way more than I've succeeded.

I failed at the biggest things there are in life. I failed in my health, I failed in my marriage, I failed in everything, and I've picked myself up and gone on.

We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.

Failure is enriching. It's also important to accept that you'll make mistakes - it's how you build your expertise. The trick is to learn a positive lesson from all of life's negative moments.

Remember that failure is an event, not a person.

The bad experiences make you stronger and makes you focus on the next project.

Failure has been the great theme of my life, I think.

Failure's not a bad thing. It builds character. It makes you stronger.

I have had a lot of setbacks that I have learned from.

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

I should only look back at moments that were disparaging, look down upon, negative for me - moments where I could learn something. And if I have been able to use that learning in future, then I am happy about it.

It is in the failures of our striving that we find ourselves, and it is then, in the rising above them and trying again, that we carry ourselves to the next level. If the runner stumbles, they get up and run again.

I know that when you are experiencing failure, it's pretty damn painful. It is easy in retrospect to wax poetic about it. But in the moment, you don't think you will survive, let alone have the time to reflect on how valuable those lessons will be for you in the future.