Gail Sheehy Quotes

Learning how to work and learning how to fail is important.

If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.

Don't be frightened of failure. It makes you stronger if you learn from your mistakes.

I eventually became proud of my strikeouts, because each one represented another learning experience.

Well, the idea is that failure is an inevitable partner on the road to success and, if you're not willing to confront failure, you can never find out how good you are.

As an athlete, that's something I always take with me. You fall every day, whether it's in a job, or you miss something else, but you learn how to do it better next time. You learn it in sports. That's a life lesson.

I'll keep doing the things I don't know if I'm good enough to do.

To know you're truly alive in wrestling, you have to constantly challenge yourself. You constantly have to do things that you're unsure you can do.

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

I had the luxury of falling down a few times and picking myself up as a stronger version of myself.

The greatest mistake a person can make is to be afraid of making one.

What people call success is only preparation for the next failure.

You can be shaped, or you can be broken. There is not much in between. Try to learn. Be coachable. Try to learn from everybody, especially those who fail. This is hard. ... How promising you are as a Student of the Game is a function of what you can pay attention to without running away.

I like challenges and I don't believe in failure. I don't believe in regrets. I believe suffering, failure - all those concepts - are things that are absolutely necessary to make us the best people that we can be, the best at whatever we want to do.

I have insecurities. But whatever I'm insecure about, I don't dissect it, but I'll go after it and say, "What am I afraid of?" I bet the average successful person can tell you they've failed so much more than they've had success. I've had far more failures than I've had successes. With every commercial I've gotten, there were 200 I didn't get. You have to go after what you're afraid of.

I'll tell you one of the great activities is skateboarding. To learn to do a skateboard trick, how many times do you gotta get something wrong til you get it right? ...And you hurt yourself, and you learn to do that trick, now you got a life lesson. Every time I see those skateboard kids, I think 'those kids'll be alright.'

I have found that I always learn more from my mistakes than from my successes. If you aren't making some mistakes, you aren't taking enough chances.

Everything is a learning process: any time you fall over, it's just teaching you to stand up the next time.

I cherish all of the times I've fallen on my face and made mistakes, because those experiences have made me who I am.

Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over again, and you will grow stronger until you have accomplished a purpose - not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember.

It's important to set challenges that you're not sure you're equal to.

I've permitted myself to learn and to fail with some regularity. And that is probably the one thing I was given, and that I'm still grateful for.

To be successful at anything, you need the right to fail, not just occasionally.

I'm just not willing to give up on myself. If I'm going to fail, then I want to fail to the limits of my talent.

When people come to me and tell me I was terrific in this or that, I do not want to fall flat on my face the next time. But, tough, I have fallen flat before. You just get up and dust yourself off.