David Henry Hwang Quotes

Even the accomplished suffers setbacks sometimes. The more bitter the lessons, the greater the successes will be.

What helped me most were my failures and slumps - when I couldn't get work, people weren't interested in me or had written me off.

I think the periods of being unsuccessful have made me a better actor.

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.

I learned failure early and mastered it.

Every time you fail, you learn more.

Defeat has its lessons as well as victory.

When you win a lot, you don't learn much. With my ups and downs, it's a lot of learning.

In the long run, it's impossible to make progress without sometimes having setbacks, although people who get lucky on their first attempt sometimes forget this.

Sport and life is about losing. It's about understanding how to lose.

Success is not built on success. It's built on failure. It's built on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe.

Setbacks motivate me.

Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.

Failure's a natural part of life.

It's failure, really, that you grow by, although nobody likes to experience it.

I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.

I think there are a number of things that you can do to encourage your kids' dreams, but I do believe in speaking by experience of having a lot of help along the way, stumbling in the past. We've all stumbled, and we certainly all deserve to get up and walk again.

I think with challenges, you either overcome them or you fall behind and become a statistic.

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

Life is easy when you're hot. But what happens when the ball bounces the other way? You just keep getting back up and climbing up.

Nobody travels on the road to success without a puncture or two.

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

I was very lucky to get well known much later in life. You need to have flopped quite a few times to get a sense of how little any of it has to do with you.

The biggest lessons I learned were probably the times where I had the biggest setbacks and the biggest challenges - when I had the biggest jumps forward and lessons learned.

You learn a lot more from those bumps than from when things are going great.