Most so called FAILURES are only temporary defeats
You are fortunate if you have learned the difference between temporary defeat and failure, more fortunate still if you have learned the truth that the very seed of success is dormant in every defeat that you experience.
Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.
Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
Never make a permanent decision about a temporary situation.
You can lose a game but, I see guys every week including myself, you lose a game, it's a tough loss, you're down, two weeks later you forgot about it. You know it's amazing how down you were, but all of the sudden you're like it never happened.
If you find something you are passionate about, you've got to try. Even if something doesn't quite work out, disappointment is a temporary thing. Regret lasts forever.
Losing isn't bitter because it's temporary.
Still, I believe it is only a passing phase and cricket will one day produce an abundance of great players.
Sometimes a step forward needs a step back.
Remember when your plans fail, that temporary defeat is not permanent failure.
Failure is delay, but not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead-end street.
Broke is temporary, poor is eternal.
What seems tragic now won't even be an issue in a few years time.
You can not always think about winning everything and forever.
The middle of every successful project looks like a disaster.
The fact that a knight is temporarily on the edge of the board is of no great significance.
Failure is an event, never a person; an attitude, not an outcome; a temporary inconvenience; a stepping stone. Our response to it determines just how helpful it can be.
Things will get worse before they get better.
Every time I am stuck in traffic, stub my toe, get a middle seat on the flight, I just remember how all of this is just a blip in the radar of my life.
Sometimes you have to take two steps back to take ten forward.
Sometimes the tide is just out. But it always comes back in again. In times of severe distress, we tend to get tunnel vision and think this feeling will last forever. It will not.
Next time someone tells you 'never,' remember that means 'not for at least one hour.'
This antitrust thing will blow over.
