Christina Tosi Quotes

You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them.

What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.

There's always failure. And there's always disappointment. And there's always loss. But the secret is learning from the loss, and realizing that none of those holes are vacuums.

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

I find rejection or failure to be a really interesting and valuable experience.

Every mistake that you make, or every thing that you might regret, you don't need to necessarily regret it, because it can be a step forward. You just move forward and let them go because there will be a lot of bad auditions, and there will be a lot of negative responses. But that won't last forever.

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.

The human spirit is so resilient, and failure teaches you so much.

The theme of my life is overcoming. It is my personal mantra and what I help other people do.

Life is a balance of fear and overcoming it.

You have to experience and take defeat in any and all aspects of life so you can be better and stronger.

Don't be defined by your failures, be refined by them.

My advice is find fuel in failure. Sometimes failure gets you closer to where you want to be.

In difficult times, we're not supposed to quit believing; we're not supposed to quit growing.

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.

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.

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

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

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.

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

Take those chances and you can achieve greatness, whereas if you go conservative, you'll never know. I truly believe what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Even if you fail, learning and moving on is sometimes the best thing.

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.

We acquire the strength we have overcome.