handling failure Quotes

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

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.

Successful people reject rejection.

I enjoy watching competitive people. You watch 'em come and you watch 'em go, and how they try to be the best. How they handle when they're not. How they handle when they are. How they get along together on the court.

At the end of the day, nobody can tell you how to tackle failure or how to handle change. The world is very good at encouraging you to go along with the status quo and at basking in your successes.

I reason that as long as I'm smiling 90 percent of the time, I can handle the setbacks that occur 10 percent of the time.

Golf is not about the quality of your good shots, it is about the quality of your bad shots.

What matters isn't how well you play when you're playing well. What matters is how well you play when you're playing badly.

After about nine blockbusters, I had forgotten how to deal with a failure when 'Jaan-Emaan' released. I was shaken.

There are hundreds who can stand failure to one who can stand success; the good loser is far more common than the good winner.

Success is like failure, It's how you perceive it, It's what you do with it, not how you achieve it.

As much as you learn to handle failure, you must learn to handle success too, because that's also important.

I had some rainy days, I didn't handle those rainy days. I walked out without an umbrella sometimes. I'm going to be more mentally prepared for my downs, because there are going to be ups and downs.

Some parents believe that competition helps prepare children to succeed. Others fear that their children will not be able to handle failure.

Kicking is a weird thing. You can go stretches and stretches of just doing really good, then you could have one or two kicks that can derail you. You've just got to learn to ride the wave.

When you make a bad pitch and the hitter puts it out of the park and you cost your team the game, it's a real test of your maturity to be able to stand in front of your locker fifteen minutes later and admit it to the world. How many people in other professions would be willing to have their job performances evaluated that way, in front of millions, every afternoon at five o'clock.

You always come back to earth with a thump at some stage. Life has it's ups and downs; the acid test is how you handle the downs.

As kids we're not taught how to deal with success; we're taught how to deal with failure. If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. If at first you succeed, then what?

What separates the winners from the losers is that they can deal with doing their best while still coming up short.

If you have any setback in your life, like not being in the England squad was for me - any setback, like losing a family member - everyone handles it in different ways. When I first wasn't included I was numb. I'd been the main England striker for years and years. It was really disappointing.

What separates the winners from the losers is that winners are able to handle problems and crises that they never imagined would occur. You hit the floor, but what counts is how fast you can get up and regroup. Failure is simply part of the equation.

To have your films not liked or not watched or failed, is not an easy thing to handle.

In sports, you deal with disappointment often, but it's how you handle it and come back from it that shapes you. All these lessons are transferable to life and have really helped me with the adversities I've had to deal with in life.

Meet success like a gentleman; disaster like a man.