Orison Swett Marden Quotes

Failure is part of success, and nobody should ever view failure as a bad thing as long as you learn from it.

Heartbreaks, disappointments and even our own weaknesses can serve as stepping-stones to the second half of life transformation. Failings are the foundation for growth. Those who have fallen, failed or 'gone down' are the only ones who understand 'up.'

But I look at failure as education. In that respect, I am so well-educated.

I have had unsuccessful films, but I learned a lot from those films. I give my failures as much importance as my success.

You learn more from the flops than from the hits.

I have been shaped by my mistakes and disappointments - just as I have been shaped by my successes.

The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose. Life is a learning process and you have to try to learn what's best for you. Let me tell you, life is not fun when you're banging your head against a brick wall all the time.

The only real failure in life is one not learned from.

I find rejection or failure to be a really interesting and valuable experience.

In terms of my own life and the mistakes I made and the struggles I had, I'm grateful for them. It taught me more than success and opportunity ever did.

Failure gets a bad rap, but I'd like to change that. Failure is necessary. Let it in. Chew it up, and use it as fuel for your soul.

I think the greatest mistakes have been my greatest lessons.

There are no failures in life: only learning opportunities.

We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

You can learn more from the lows than the highs. The highs are great but the lows make you really look at things in a different way and want to improve. Every player will have both in their careers and I have, but what you get is that experience which is so important to perform at your best.

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.

Everything in life is a lesson and I have learned from each marriage. Yes, I've made mistakes but every experience is a learning curve.

In my life, I have made the occasional catastrophic choice, and it's just a case of moving on and learning from it.

You don't run from the bad things in life; learn from them, because your worst is what will lead you to your best.

Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.

It's important to celebrate your failures as much as your successes. If you celebrate your failures really well, and if you get to the motto and say, 'Wow, I failed, I tried, I was wrong, I learned something,' then you realize you have no fear, and when your fear goes away, you can move the world.

No one ever gets too big to make mistakes. The secret is that the big man is greater than his mistakes, because he rises right out of them and passes beyond them.

Life is all about evolution. What looks like a mistake to others has been a milestone in my life. Even if people have betrayed me, even if my heart was broken, even if people misunderstood or judged me, I have learned from these incidents. We are human and we make mistakes, but learning from them is what makes the difference.