Gary Cahill Quotes

I tell people that the best thing that can ever happen to you is getting fired, and you can either sink or swim, and I swam like hell. The reason why I swam the way I swam was because there was nothing else for me.

Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.

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.

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus.

Success is never final; failure is never fatal. It is courage that counts.

I'm a big believer that success is never final and failure is never fatal.

Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.

Failing passionately is a success in its own right.

You can see that all these people who did really great things failed six times or didn't get going until they were much older. I think that's much more instructive and educational.

If you're constantly pushing yourself higher, higher, the law of averages - not to mention the myth of Icarus - predicts that you will at some point fall. And when you do, I want you to know this, remember this: There is no such thing as failure.

One loss is not the end of my career.

People say, 'I failed out of college! My life is over!' Well, it's not over. It depends on what you do with it.

Not many people get up after a setback or two. But those who do make the impossible come true.

It is in the failures of our striving that we find ourselves, and it is then, in the rising above them and trying again, that we carry ourselves to the next level. If the runner stumbles, they get up and run again.

Once I failed in cricket, I joined a law course, but when it also did not work out, it was another setback. When you get back-to-back failures, you automatically start to work harder in life.

There is no doubt that I feel bad when a film flops, but I can't sit back and not take up new work owing to that.

I've had losses in my career before, and I've always come back stronger from those losses.

The biggest bit of advice that I've ever received, and something that I've seen and experienced, is that, 'You can fail, and that's OK - just keep going.'

There are a lot of people who came out of adverse situations and made it. Use it as motivation. Use it to drive you.

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.

Take risks. Fail. Pick yourself back up again. And always, always remember this: there is no adversity capable of stopping you once the choice to persevere is made.

Failure is a stepping stone to success.

Everybody faces obstacles. And I looked to people who had been through many to succeed in life. Abraham Lincoln, born to a poor family, faced defeat through most of his life. Lost eight elections, failed two businesses, had a nervous breakdown, and still became president.