William Arthur Ward Quotes

I strongly believe that whenever there's failure or you feel like you've failed, it's only just the beginning, and you can only learn from it.

Exposure to defeat is a very important thing. Anyone who doesn't look to get beaten is doing a disservice to himself.

She thinks, I failed twice. If I failed twice I'm going to fail forever. No! That is not the law of life. If you failed twice that means you can learn. It's just a learning experience. It's an obstacle. An imaginary obstacle. She made it real. She made failing a journey of life... Instead do again and make a journey of your life.

We try, and we try, and we fail; and then we go deeper.

Remind thyself, in the darkest moments, that every failure is only a step toward success, ... Your life will never be the same again.

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

There is nothing that teaches you more than regrouping after failure and moving on.

If you're having trouble succeeding, fail.

Struggle is the best teacher.

You fail, and then what? Life goes on. It's only when you risk failure that you discover things.

Fall forward. Here's what I mean: Reggie Jackson struck out 2,600 times in his career - the most in the history of baseball. But you don't hear about the strikeouts. People remember the home runs. Fall forward. Thomas Edison conducted 1,000 failed experiments. Did you know that? I didn't either - because number 1,001 was the light bulb. Fall forward. Every failed experiment is one step closer to success.

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.

A failure isn't a failure if it prepares you for success tomorrow.

Failure is not to be feared. It is from failure that most growth comes.

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.

All great success is preceded by failure.

99 percent of success is built on failure.

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.

When people feel that they have failed, it's usually because somebody or something caused them to feel that way and taste defeat. I refuse to dwell on that. Yes, it sucks at first, and the feeling is valid, but it all happens for a reason.

Failure instructs, failure improves. Failure shouldn't deter you.

Success is built on disappointment, and disappointment is inherent in all success.

We seem to gain wisdom more readily through our failures than through our successes. We always think of failure as the antithesis of success, but it isn't. Success often lies just the other side of failure.

Perhaps the most important thing I could say is to never be thrown by failure and mistakes. Each and everything that happens, even if it was not what you hoped would happen, is a valuable, life-learning tool. And you will only achieve success if you know how to learn from your failures and mistakes. It’s vital.

It is failure that is easy. Success is always hard.