Jon Stewart Quotes

Good things don't happen by coincidence. Every dream carries with it certain risks, especially the risk of failure. But I am not stopped by risks. Supposed a great person takes the risk and fails. Then the person must try again. You cannot fail forever. If you try ten times, you have a better chance of making it on the eleventh try than if you didn't try at all.

I haven't always done a good job, and I haven't always been successful - but I know that I have tried.

A good part of my leadership skills is crafted from learning from experiences early in my career that were not positive experiences.

I can only put myself in the process and try to learn through the process. Sometimes it will go well and sometimes it won't.

Someone said adversity builds character, but someone else said adversity reveals character. I'm pleasantly surprised with my resilience. I persevere, and not just blindly. I take the best, get rid of the rest, and move on, realizing that you can make a choice to take the good.

I think you have regrets when you didn't give it everything you had, and I always felt like I did. Whether it was good enough or not, that has nothing to do with the fact that I tried my best to give my team a chance to win, year in and year out.

It frustrates me if I'm not good at something, so I do it until I get good at it.

You can't please everyone, but I've always felt you cannot ultimately lose if you give everything you try 110%. You'll always learn something useful, even from a failure, that can be applied to the next challenge or project.

As I said there is nothing wrong with failing. Pick yourself up and try it again. You never are going to know how good you really are until you go out and face failure.

And at the end of the day, if the movie's no good, I'll live to fight another day.

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

In failure, children learn how to struggle with adversity and how to confront fear. By reflecting on failure, children begin to see how to correct themselves and then try again with better results.

You've got to push things and get bumps and bruises along the way.

You should try and fail and not be afraid. Get up again.

Mistakes are acceptable if they're the result of moving forward.

When something goes wrong in your life, it doesn't finish you, and you should become braver, knowing that you've got to go for things in life and don't regret because you didn't try to be as good as you might be.

For me, failure is not a bad thing because it teaches you how to succeed.

The time I spent on the bench helped me to reflect and think. It encouraged me to keep fighting and work.

You fail, and then what? Life goes on. It's only when you risk failure that you discover things.

Don't be afraid to admit defeat. Learn from defeat. Do over again more thoroughly, more carefully, and more systematically what you have done badly.

Humility in this business [acting] isn't just a matter of being polite, it's kind of a matter of survival. You can't ever afford to think that you're the bee's knees, because you could always afford to be better. You have to always be searching for something better.

In business, you take a swing and you hope that you hit a home run, but sometimes you strike out. Strikeouts and failures are important. Being down, getting punched in the gut every once in a while by life and coming back up, that's accomplishment.

The person who fails the most wins.

Don't judge those who try and fail. Judge only those who fail to try.

Obstacles are only opportunities to succeed or fail; how we handle them determines what will happen.