Vernon Wells Quotes

I remember in my second year in the league, I dropped 17 balls and led the NFL in dropped passes. That made me the player I am. If I didn't go through that transformative power of crisis, none of this would've probably happened for me.

There are no failures in life: only learning opportunities.

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

Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty.

The content of your character will come from how you respond to your failures.

When you are having a rough day... you think you are failing. But failure is a part of life. It's about building character and growing.

Perhaps the most important thing I could say is to never be thrown by failure and mistakes. Each and everything that happens, even if it was not what you hoped would happen, is a valuable, life-learning tool. And you will only achieve success if you know how to learn from your failures and mistakes. It’s vital.

Failure isn't a character quality. It's just an event. How you respond to failure is your character.

There is a lot of difference between failure and defeat. Failure is when you are defeated and neither learn nor contribute anything.

It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.

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.

Failure and things of this sort - you can take it one of two ways. You can either let that hurt you and really affect the way that you live your life in the future, or you can use that as an opportunity for growth.

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

You've got to learn to survive a defeat. That's when you develop character.

Failure is an enigma. You worry about it, and it teaches you something.

Failure's not a bad thing. It builds character. It makes you stronger.

Your ability to adapt to failure, and navigate your way out of it, absolutely 100 percent makes you who you are.

I think the personal stories that I tell in my life, I think, sort of do add up to say that you can fail and fail and fail again and continue to move forward.

We don't grow as human beings from good things happening. We grow from failures.

I know that when you are experiencing failure, it's pretty damn painful. It is easy in retrospect to wax poetic about it. But in the moment, you don't think you will survive, let alone have the time to reflect on how valuable those lessons will be for you in the future.

This game is obviously about failure. You're going to fail most of the time. It's how you handle it.

All the losses that I had, I think they were important, just because it helped me grow as a fighter, helped me grow as a person.

You need not spend your life wallowing in failure, ignorance, grief, poverty, shame and self-pity. There is a better way to live.

I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it

Failure is not to be feared. It is from failure that most growth comes.