Max Lucado Quotes

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

Your ability to adapt to failure, and navigate your way out of it, absolutely 100 percent makes you who you are.

There are no failures in life: only learning opportunities.

As long as you've done your best, making mistakes doesn't matter. You and I are human; we will mess up. What counts is learning from your mistakes and getting back up when life has knocked you down.

That's what courage is. Taking your disappointments and your failures, your guilt and your shame, all the wounds received and inflicted, and sinking them in the past. Starting again. Damning yesterday and facing tomorrow with your head held high. Times change. It's those that see it coming, and plan for it, and change themselves to suit, that prosper.

I believe there is nothing we endure in life that you can't recover from. Failure is not fatal. Everyone has the capacity to fail up.

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.

I've had great success and I've had catastrophic failure. It's really how you handle the rough stuff that defines you, I think.

I've done movies that were maybe not worth it, but I try to take the best from every experience. You learn more from bad experiences sometimes. It gives you more will to overcome your mistakes. They give you determination.

There's nothing wrong with failing if you learn from it, and I've failed out here plenty.

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

I'm most proud of the blessings that God has bestowed upon me, in my life. He's given me the vision to truly see that you can fall down, but you can still get back up. Hopefully I'll learn from my mistakes and have the opportunity to strengthen and improve the next thing I do.

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

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.

I wanted people to know that I'm human, and I'm only successful because I've learned the hard way. I've been in so many dark places, but I got myself out.

People aren't born strong. People grow stronger little by little, encountering difficult situations, learning not to run from them.

When you are having a rough day... you think you are failing. But failure is a part of life. It's about building character and growing.

My first year at Queen's Park, I just wasn't good enough, but that tough period shaped me.

I have fallen a few times, and each time, I have gotten up and grown as a person and looked at things a little differently.

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

I feel like I am a better person because of my struggles, because of my challenges and persevering through them and realizing the mistakes that I've made, correcting them.

You're going to fail. It's how you respond to that failure that kind of defines you as a person, as an athlete.

I don't think I'm any worse for my bad experiences. Actually, they have made me better.

What don't break you will make you.

The biggest thing for me is that I've managed to work through some difficult times, and those moments always make you stronger. It makes you a stronger person and a better player.