May Sarton Quotes

If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person. It's how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit.

When you win a lot, you don't learn much. With my ups and downs, it's a lot of learning.

Mistakes are part of the game. It's how well you recover from them, that's the mark of a great player.

We screwed things up and got a lot of things right.

I think it does everybody a lot of good to have a period of no success.

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.

You make mistakes in a game, but if you come away with a win, that's all gone.

I love faltering. I love, in a sense, coming up short. Because you learn nothing from success. You learn so much from failing.

The failures and successes are necessary for learning.

It's okay to lose. Losing teaches you something. Having to try and going through the trials and tribulations to actually overcome, to get there to win, to triumph, that's what makes life interesting.

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.

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

But I think my mistakes became the chemistry for my miracles. I think that my tests became my testimonies.

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

Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.

Failing is what we do, or stumbling is what we do on a daily basis.

Everyone has obstacles, and you're not going to have the right answer or do the right thing every single time.

You learn more from the flops than from the hits.

I am not strong on perfection.

I've learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.

Every day I fail at something.

I think growth covers up mistakes.

You made a lot of mistakes, and you wrote a lot of crap. But it was all part of the learning process.

You learn more from losing than winning. You learn how to keep going.

When you lose, you're more motivated. When you win, you fail to see your mistakes and probably no one can tell you anything.