Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes

When people feel that they have failed, it's usually because somebody or something caused them to feel that way and taste defeat. I refuse to dwell on that. Yes, it sucks at first, and the feeling is valid, but it all happens for a reason.

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.

Remind thyself, in the darkest moments, that every failure is only a step toward success, ... Your life will never be the same again.

Failure is not to be feared. It is from failure that most growth comes.

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.

Obstacles are found everywhere, and in overcoming them we nourish ourselves.

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.

Failure means you've now learned another valuable lesson that pushes you one step closer to success.

Everybody loves winning, but we should not linger on the difference between winning and losing... But Is losing failing?

There is a lot of difference between failure and defeat. Failure is when you are defeated and neither learn nor contribute anything.

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.

I believe there is nothing we endure in life that you can't recover from. Failure is not fatal. Everyone has the capacity to fail up.

Defeat has its lessons as well as victory.

A good balance of winning and losing is important. If you just win all the time, you won't get anything out of it; having some tough losses can be really important.

It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.

I've had great success and I've had catastrophic failure. It's really how you handle the rough stuff that defines you, I think.

You can learn a line from a win and a book from a defeat.

Learn how to be a loser, because it's important to be a loser to be a winner.

You're going to fail. It's how you respond to that failure that kind of defines you as a person, as an athlete.

You cannot build up a character in a solitude; you need a formed character to stand a solitude.

As I became more mature I realized that failure is part of success.

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

All life battles teach us something, even those we lose

I find quite as much material for a lecture in those points wherein I have failed, as in those wherein I have been moderately successful.

Failure is an indispensable prerequisite of success. It is how you learn the lessons you need.