John Wooden Quotes

Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it.

Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.

You have to be able to accept failure to get better.

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.

It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success.

You can't win every game, so I've just got to get back to work and get better next week.

We make mistakes, but we learn from them.

There's no substitute for experiencing ups and downs - seeing how it's okay that things are overwhelming or broken sometimes and how companies recover from mistakes.

Everything that I do should be wrong, but I started really young, and I just learned how to learn. I would fail, and I would figure out why that didn't go right and do it again.

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

You learn nothing form your successes except to think too much of yourself. It is from failure that all growth comes, provided you can recognize it, admit it, learn from it, rise above it, and then try again.

When we are confronted by failure and mistakes, we can leave them behind and go on with our lives.

Shake off your blunders. How will you know your limits without an occasional failure? Never quit. Your turn will come.

It's what you get from games you lose that is extremely important.

Successful people don't fear failure, but understand that it's necessary to learn and grow from.

The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose.

Don't be afraid to try again everyone goes south every now and then.

The most creative and most periods of my life that were, had the most growth, were the ones where I was perceived to be failing. Perceived success is a, is really hard 'cause it doesn't really, it's not asking you to grow, see failure is asking you to grow.

If you're having trouble succeeding, fail.

Even when you've made mistakes in life, you can still contribute and pick up the stuff and move on.

I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.

You are going to fail, and failing, for me, is as joyful as succeeding. Failing means that there is something to learn, and we can improve and do it better next time.

I believe there's only one regulation in life that works: failure.

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

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.