Lina Wertmuller Quotes

Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near victory as when you are defeated in a good cause.

Sometimes in a defeat, you can set the stage for future victory.

Successful people fail often, and, worth noting, learn more from that failure than everyone else.

The art of victory is learned in defeat.

It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.

Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.

There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.

Man is not made for defeat.

I've learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.

As a tennis player, you have to get used to losing every week. Unless you win the tournament, you always go home as a loser. But you have to take the positive out of a defeat and go back to work. Improve to fail better.

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

Guys lose. You learn from it and move on.

You learn more from defeats and it makes you hungry to go and improve the next time. That's the way I have dealt with things during my whole career.

You have to experience and take defeat in any and all aspects of life so you can be better and stronger.

I lost my first mayor's race. I lost the primary. But we came back and won that. So I know you've got to play to win, but you can't be afraid to lose.

Sometimes in a defeat, you can set the stage for future victory. I wanted them to feel good about what they had accomplished. Not to like losing, but to like the success that they had.

You will face many defeats in your life, but never let yourself be defeated.

A winner must first know what losing's like.

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.

Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong.

We must learn from misfortune the means of future strength.

Failure is my specialty.

If there is any single factor that makes for success in living, it is the ability to draw dividends from defeat.

One learns more from defeat than from victory.

People learn from failure or from lack of success.