Romola Garai Quotes

The first important step in weathering failure is learning not to personalize it.

The strength of character and emotional intelligence to face your failures and learn from them are at the core of success.

When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

I run skills-building programs focused on healthy risk taking, failure resilience, and self-care for undergraduates around the country.

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.

You don't get better if you win all the time. You look at yourself more when you lose.

As you get older you learn some balance and mediation in your life - that's where I am right now. I feel pretty comfortable about things.

Unfortunately, it is human nature for us to only learn and grow from a place of emptiness. It's hard to learn when we are winning and on top of the world.

I'm not critic-proof, and I still take it personally, but I take it less personally now.

Every time I'd get a critique or some redirection, I'd always just take it very personally. Now I have no problem with it.

Life's experiences, whether they be pleasant or unpleasant, torturous or excruciatingly wonderful and blissful, you know, season you somehow and you learn from them.

The only person who needs to know about failure is yourself.

I would have thought that I would have become one of those parents - just because it's my nature to be such a perfectionist - that anything falling short, I would have seen as a failure. But something has happened to me over the past few years - it's not Zen, believe me, I'm not at all Zen - but I'm so appreciative of even the chaos.

You have good days, you have bad days. But the main thing is to grow mentally.

I'm coming from a place of total strength and humility now.

I'm a person that carries everything that happened to me in my past, with me into the future. I refuse to let it make me bitter. I still completely believe in love and I remain open to anything that will happen to me.

You learn a lot more from the lows because it makes you pay attention to what you're doing.

I'm not cynical or bitter in any way. Life's too short; you get ripped off, but if you hold a grudge, it's going to affect you. You take it on the chin, you learn, you try not to make the same mistakes.

You take the good with the bad and try not to listen to everything said about you because you know it's not good.

In terms of relationships, I've had two failures, although I don't like to call them failures; they are self learning, and I cannot say I regret any of my relationships. I've always said that I am a much loved woman.

I've probably earned the right to screw up a few times. I don't want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about.

It was kind of a hard lesson when I figured out that not everybody is going to be kind, be sweet. So I've learned that I am never going to make everybody happy. There's always going to be someone who can't stand the way I write, and I can't take that personally.

If you want to be honest with yourself, you have to take criticism, even if you attract adverse comments from others.

When you lose, you learn a lot about yourself. That experience is important.

I believe when people can find out who they are, then you can be equipped to handle life's situations.