John McGinn Quotes

A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.

All of us, in a sense, struggle continuously all the time, because we never get what we want. The important thing which I've really learned is how do you not give up, because you never succeed in the first attempt.

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.

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.

When you get kicked, you must know that the response is to play better. That is the way I have always thought. That is an extra motivation for me to play better.

There's no more powerful lesson than knowing that your setbacks will one day help you succeed.

Rejection is a gift and failure is the best educator, so when someone knocks you down, get back up!

Failure is nothing more than learning how to win.

Never permit failure to become a habit.

I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.

You are going to fail, and failing, for me, is as joyful as succeeding. Failing means that there is something to learn, and we can improve and do it better next time.

Success is never final, but failure can be.

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

When you fail you learn from the mistakes you made and it motivates you to work even harder.

Success isn't permanent and failure isn't fatal.

With failure, you just try again.

We will all fail in life, but nobody has to be a failure. Failing at a thing doesn't make you a failure. You are only a failure when you quit trying.

You learn more from losing than winning. You learn how to keep going.

As a tennis player, you have to get used to losing every week. Unless you win the tournament, you always go home as a loser. But you have to take the positive out of a defeat and go back to work. Improve to fail better.

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.

I still take losing out very seriously. But it inspires me that much more to move on. Quite often in my business, it's not the most talented people that succeed. Because they don't necessarily have the tenacity to deal with rejection.

When we lose, we don't have to change everything but correct things by working hard.

Treat failure as a lesson on how not to approach achieving a goal, and then use that learning to improve your chances of success when you try again. Failure is only the end if you decide to stop.