John McEnroe Quotes

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

That’s what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we’ve changed because of it, and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way is winning.

We seem to gain wisdom more readily through our failures than through our successes. We always think of failure as the antithesis of success, but it isn't. Success often lies just the other side of failure.

Perhaps the most important thing I could say is to never be thrown by failure and mistakes. Each and everything that happens, even if it was not what you hoped would happen, is a valuable, life-learning tool. And you will only achieve success if you know how to learn from your failures and mistakes. It’s vital.

Mistakes are the stepping stones to success.

You learn more from your losses, than from your gains.

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.

Losing teaches you something

You don’t always win, but every time you lose, you get better.

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

What the world calls failure, I call learning.

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.

I make plenty of mistakes and I'll make plenty more mistakes, too. That's part of the game. You've just got to make sure that the right things overcome the wrong ones.

She thinks, I failed twice. If I failed twice I'm going to fail forever. No! That is not the law of life. If you failed twice that means you can learn. It's just a learning experience. It's an obstacle. An imaginary obstacle. She made it real. She made failing a journey of life... Instead do again and make a journey of your life.

Unfortunately, it is human nature for us to only learn and grow from a place of emptiness. It's hard to learn when we are winning and on top of the world.

You can always learn when you lose.

From my three loses in my entire career I've always learned from them and came back stronger.

Failure is a great learning tool.

Making a mistake is also an achievement.

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

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.

As long as they are well-intentioned, mistakes are not a matter for shame but for learning

How many people are completely successful in every department of life? Not one. The most successful people are the ones who learn from their mistakes and turn their failures into opportunities.

Losing is a learning experience. It teaches you humility. It teaches you to work harder. It's also a powerful motivator.

I strongly believe that whenever there's failure or you feel like you've failed, it's only just the beginning, and you can only learn from it.