Failure Response Quotes

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

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

Failure happens to everyone in this game. It's not something worth harping on. What is worth focusing on is how you respond to that failure.

Failure does not shape you; the way you respond to failure shapes you.

I came out of the failure of 'Mister' rather fast. It took me just three days.

The mistakes don't matter. It's what you do when you mess up that does.

Emphasizing effort gives a child a variable that they can control. They come to see themselves as in control of their success. Emphasizing natural intelligence takes it out of the child's control, and it provides no good recipe for responding to a failure.

There's always a knee-jerk reaction in our business to analyze and determine why something didn't work.

The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure.

We're finding that many parents endorse a growth mindset, but they still respond to their children's errors, setbacks or failures as though they're damaging and harmful. If they show anxiety or overconcern, those kids are going toward a more fixed mindset.

The real test in golf and in life is not in keeping out of the rough, but in getting out after you are in.

Why do we resist giving help to homeless men? In part because we don't understand how our pressure on men to support families often forces men to take transient jobs that are but a step away from homelessness (the death-of-a-salesman jobs, the migrant worker jobs...) and in part because we respond differently to men who fail [than women who fail].

Optimism is a perfectly legitimate response to failure.

I changed my act because I wasn't getting booked.

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

When things don't go right, people are always trying to protect themselves.

You're going to fail. It's how you respond to that failure that kind of defines you as a person, as an athlete.

One thing is certain in business: you will make mistakes. When you are pushing the boundaries, mistakes are inevitable-how you react is important.

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.

People change. They get successful and change. They get unsuccessful and change.

There is something shameful about the death of a play. It does not die with pity, but contempt.

It's not the victories that count to me. It's the quality of how you deliver your losses and the quality of how you deliver your victories.

It's always important to respond after a defeat.