Turning Setbacks into Opportunities Quotes

You learn more from your losses, than from your gains.

Beside every great success are the seeds of enormous failure. In every failure, there's the opportunity seeds of great success. They're not miles apart. So if they're that close together, and if you're really working, you're always gonna have that likelihood that something's not going to work.

Big failures hold better lessons than any success - as long as you are in tune with yourself and are open to learning from them. I can trace every one of my accomplishments to earlier failures that I learned from.

We don't make mistakes; we just have happy accidents.

What the world calls failure, I call learning.

There are tons of talented people, and they might not even be the most talented, but they're the ones who were so resilient and learned in loss that it was winning by losing.

How can we get the most from every mistake we make?

And falling's just another way to fly.

I used to save all my rejection slips because I told myself, one day I'm going to autograph these and auction them. And then I lost the box.

Every setback might be the very thing that makes you carry on and fight all the harder and become much better.

At this point, I've really failed at a lot of things. It's nice to be able to say that, in a way. I've failed at music. I've failed at dance. And acting - there have been times when I went out and read lines to audition for acting parts. I believe that if anybody wrangled together those audition tapes, it would be pretty hysterically funny.

Learn from the negative as well as the positive, from the failures as well as the successes.

I always say that I'm really inspired by mistakes and things that kind of go wrong.

Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

I don't believe in failure. I believe every setback is an opportunity to learn, regroup, get stronger, and try again. This is my motto: Rejection is God's protection. When people feel that they have failed, it's usually because somebody or something caused them to feel that way and taste defeat. I refuse to dwell on that. Yes, it sucks at first, and the feeling is valid, but it all happens for a reason. Let go.

Just as nature takes every obstacle, every impediment, and works around it--turns it to its purposes, incorporates it into itself, so, too, a rational being can turn each setback into raw material and use it to achieve its goal.

Setbacks have an upside; they fuel new dreams.

There are many challenges, there are many obstacles; let us try to change the obstacles to advantages.

Past failures unlock future successes

The best work comes from people who are motivated by crisis. When something stops their original idea, they respond by coming up with something even better.

There is great value in disaster. All our mistakes are burned up. Thank God we can start a new.

Misfortunes have their dignity and their redeeming power.

I tell people that the best thing that can ever happen to you is getting fired, and you can either sink or swim, and I swam like hell. The reason why I swam the way I swam was because there was nothing else for me.

Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.

Every little obstacle-every fall you have-is an opportunity.