Martha Beck Quotes

Everything's not going to go perfect. You're going to have some losses that you're going to have to bounce back from and some things that are a little unforeseen that you're going to have to deal with.

I have always felt that although someone may defeat me, and I strike out in a ball game, the pitcher on the particular day was the best player. But I know when I see him again, I'm going to be ready for his curve ball. Failure is a part of success.

The young must be prepared to experience innumerable disappointments and yet not fail.

Football is one of those games that definitely relates to life in a lot of ways. Everything can be going good, and just like that, you have a turnover. Things are going south, you're going the opposite direction. How are you going to recover from it? That's the beauty in this game.

We deprive our children, our charges, of persistence. What I am trying to say is that we need to fail, children need to fail, we need to feel sad, anxious and anguished. If we impulsively protect ourselves and our children, as the feel-good movement suggests, we deprive them of learning-persistence skills.

If something goes wrong, don’t whine about it. Have a spine about it. Adjust, adapt, and move forward.

No man or woman is uniformly successful... we must all expect a rather high percentage of failure in the things we attempt.

You know you're going to get burned from time to time. It's just part of the game. So when it happens you have to pick yourself up, dust yourself off and forget about it because they're about to snap the ball again.

As a player and a coach, I've had plenty of great moments, but I've also experienced disappointments. The disappointments are not about self-doubt, but rather about change. I've always seen failures as a personal challenge. I say to myself: Now I have to find out if I have the right stuff.

Failure is not always a bad thing. You just have to be smart while you're in the middle of it. You're in the eye of the tornado of like disappointment to know that it's just a storm and it'll pass.

The greatest measure of a human being isn't how he handles himself when things are going well, but how he handles himself when things are going badly, when defeat comes.

For me, survival is the ability to cope with difficulties, with circumstances, and to overcome them.

There is nothing that teaches you more than regrouping after failure and moving on.

In general, with things unpleasant, the rule is: The sooner you hit bottom, the faster you surface.

Learn how to cope, sweet friend. There will always be dark days ahead.

Even if we fail, we are still gaining life experience. The worst thing that could happen is that we come out smarter and more prepared for our next challenge.

Facing difficulties is inevitable. Learning from them is optional.

Everyone deals with adversity. It's how you bounce back from it.

Adversity is just change that we haven't adapted ourselves to yet.

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

I mean, the things you think will never happen, you have to confront; those things that come into your life that you thought you never could deal with, you do.

When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realise that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives.

Life is easy when you're hot. But what happens when the ball bounces the other way? You just keep getting back up and climbing up.

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