Leon Michel Gambetta Quotes

Michael Jordan taught me after our game of one-on-one: A loss is not a failure until you make an excuse. When excuses are no longer an option, you can focus your attention on the job you have to do, and not why it didn't get done.

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.

Failures happen. You can't cry over them. You just take it in your stride because you know that you have done your best... Sometimes, even the best is not enough.

A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

I always say, decisions I make, I live with them. There's always ways you can correct them or ways you can do them better. At the end of the day, I live with them.

I thank God for my failures. Maybe not at the time but after some reflection. I never feel like a failure just because something I tried has failed.

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

We will all fail in life, but nobody has to be a failure. Failing at a thing doesn't make you a failure. You are only a failure when you quit trying.

I firmly believe that you live and learn, and if you don't learn from past mistakes, then you need to be drug out and shot.

Failure is a great teacher, and I think when you make mistakes and you recover from them and you treat them as valuable learning experiences, then you've got something to share.

The failures of the past will mean more sacrifices.

When you face up to bad things in the past, the most important thing is not to allow them to happen today or in the future, and as storytellers, we must play our part in that.

You look back and reflect and there are things you could do better - even when there's been an 'experience that was unjust.

Failure happens to everyone in this game. It's not something worth harping on. What is worth focusing on is how you respond to that failure.

I have made mistakes and learnt from them.

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.

I try to learn from my losses, see how they can help me in the future.

The most important lesson to remember is that failure is inevitable, but so is success, so rebound.

Something good happens or something bad, I think, 'What can I do better? What didn't I do this year?'

Study without reflection is a waste of time; reflection without study is dangerous.

You learn from your mistakes, and I think it's a good thing as long as you learn something.

Don't be frightened of failure. It makes you stronger if you learn from your mistakes.

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

I've had a lot of success; I've had failures, so I learn from the failure.

Remember that failure is an event, not a person.