Donald Freed Quotes

Focus on the possibilities for success, not on the potential for failure

Success is always an easier motivator, because you want more of it. But I've also been motivated by failure. Had I medaled in London, I don't think I would be one of the few that have gone to a Summer and Winter. I would have been content with that medal. Instead, I used that failure to go to the Winter Olympics. I always tell people that failure can be one of your biggest motivators if you just have an attitude adjustment about it.

Everybody loves winning, but we should not linger on the difference between winning and losing... But Is losing failing?

Criticism is a great motivation. Failure is not an option to me.

Successful people are successful for one simple reason: they think about failure differently.

Failure is nothing more than learning how to win.

I hope someday to have so much of what the world calls success, that people will ask me, "What's your secret?" and I will tell them, "I just get up again when I fall down."

I truly believe that everything happens for a reason. So you asked, ‘When things get really, really difficult in your life, what keeps you going?’ For me, it’s always that the most difficult moments in my life, the moments in which I believe I’ve completely failed or hit bottom, I can actually directly link them to something later that is either a true success or a dream come true. So, I do believe that if you can maintain that everything happens for a reason, you can find the strength and the lesson in those difficult moments and grow stronger.

Everyone has egos, and you want to come out on top. You have to pick yourself up and go at it again.

I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.

Rejection just motivates me to keep trying and to try to do better.

There's always ways of motivating yourself to higher levels. Write about it, dream about it. But after that, turn it into action. Don't just dream.

All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right about face which turns us from failure to success.

Never allow yourself to dwell upon your weaknesses, deficiencies, or failures. Holding firmly the ideal and struggling vigorously to attain it will help you to realize it.

Only one guy can be world champion, and so if everyone else thought they were failures you'd have no one left on the grid.

Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.

I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.

I'm a big believer that success is never final and failure is never fatal.

The first thing successful people do is view failure as a positive signal to success.

If you're constantly pushing yourself higher, higher, the law of averages - not to mention the myth of Icarus - predicts that you will at some point fall. And when you do, I want you to know this, remember this: There is no such thing as failure.

I think you have to try and fail a little bit, because you learn how badly you want it.

Failure's a marker of success in its own right because you went out and tried something... If you really don't want to fail, go find a comfortable chair and stay there. Just don't go out and do anything.

Fear of failure is a great thing. It pushes you past your comfort levels.

Failure is a word I don't accept.

The more failure you can accept, the greater your chance of success.