Dallas Willard Quotes

From success, you learn absolutely nothing. From failure and setbacks conclusions can be drawn. That goes for your private life as well as your career.

Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping. We see our past achievements as the end results of a clean forward thrust, and our present difficulties as signs of decline and decay.

Success is a poor teacher

I'm afraid the negative things are always the great subjects. Failure is much more interesting than success.

I feel ups and downs are a part of one's career, and this totally depends on how you take it. You can either be knocked down by the negative things, or you can take it in a positive way and learn from it.

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.

There will always be hard times. Use adversity to fuel your fire. In high school, I wanted to play quarterback but couldn't until I was a senior. I played wide receiver instead, and this ultimately helped me because I learned more about the game.

A good part of my leadership skills is crafted from learning from experiences early in my career that were not positive experiences.

The journey is never ending. There's always gonna be growth, improvement, adversity; you just gotta take it all in and do what's right, continue to grow, continue to live in the moment.

If something is going on and you are struggling, embrace it. You are growing.

I like to give myself time to deal with an issue. I get to the root of the matter and learn from it. I don't like to repeat mistakes.

Remember when your plans fail, that temporary defeat is not permanent failure.

One of the things that defines our character is how we handle mistakes.

We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

You learn as much from failure as from success, Dad always says. Though no one admires you for it.

I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it

I find quite as much material for a lecture in those points wherein I have failed, as in those wherein I have been moderately successful.

Failure is an indispensable prerequisite of success. It is how you learn the lessons you need.

I had my bad times. But the good news is that every time this has happened I've taken full responsibility for it. I don't try to duck it, I don't try to dodge it, I don't try to bullshit about it. Truth crushed to the ground will rise again. And that's what my life has been about.

Life is a series of failures punctuated by brief successes.

Failure in life does not matter; the greatest misfortune is standing still.

Because in life, the question is not if you will have problems, but how you are going to deal with them. Stop failing backward and start failing forward!

Danger is a good teacher, and makes apt scholars. So are disgrace, defeat, exposure to immediate scorn and laughter. There is no opportunity in such cases for self-delusion, no idling time away, no being off your guard (or you must take the consequences) - neither is there any room for humour or caprice or prejudice.

You are fortunate if you have learned the difference between temporary defeat and failure, more fortunate still if you have learned the truth that the very seed of success is dormant in every defeat that you experience.