Ashley Wagner Quotes

There's nothing wrong with failing if you learn from it, and I've failed out here plenty.

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

Remember that failure is an event, not a person.

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.

Failing well is a skill. Letting girls do it gives them critical practice coping with a negative experience. It also gives them the opportunity to develop a kind of confidence and resilience that can only be forged in times of challenge.

I don't believe in make-or-break moments in your life. If you screw something up, it can knock you down, but that only means you'll be better when you get back to where you were before.

I always try to balance life by thinking failure of any kind, be it relationship or any project, should not affect me as an individual.

The success or failing in one competition doesn't define you, and that is one thing that any sports would teach you.

As long as you've done your best, making mistakes doesn't matter. You and I are human; we will mess up. What counts is learning from your mistakes and getting back up when life has knocked you down.

There is no success without failure and losses.

Every failure teaches a man something, to wit, that he will probably fail again.

Just because somebody makes a mistake doesn't make them useless.

What helped me most were my failures and slumps - when I couldn't get work, people weren't interested in me or had written me off.

I think I fail a bit less than everyone else.

Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure.

Mistakes are nothing to be ashamed of.

Don't be afraid to fail. For the love of God, don't be afraid to fail, because you're going to fail. So try to fail as hard as you can is what I would say, because you're always going to get up and you're going to learn something from it.

As athletes, we're defined by what we've accomplished. Those are what most people remember and what you get paid for. But I learned more from my failures than from all of my successes put together - failures as an athlete and as a person.

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

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

I guess this year I'm going to find out if I'm good enough or not. If I'm not, I don't care. I'll do something else, it's not a biggie.

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.

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

It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

In the game of life, it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.