How You Respond To Failure Quotes

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

Rick Warren

#2. Pain is not a punishment. And pleasure is not a reward. You could argue that failure is not punishment and Success is not reward. They're just failure and success. You can choose how you respond.

Sarah Lewis

#3. People don't become leaders because they never fail. They become leaders because of the way they respond to failure.

Gerald M. Weinberg

#4. Smith felt distressed at the failure to respond in kind and interpreted it as failure on his own part. He realized miserably that, time after time, he had managed to bring agitation to these other creatures when his purpose had been to create oneness.

Robert A. Heinlein

#5. When someone has tried to please you, it is rude, as well as disheartening, to respond by announcing that the effort was a failure.

Judith Martin

#6. Mr. Gonzales' failure to respond to questions legitimately posed to him by the Senate raises grave doubts in my mind as to his fitness to serve the people of the United States as their Attorney General.

Daniel Inouye

#7. A principled person's greatest disappointment will always be his or her own failures to respond to setbacks in a dynamic and positive way.

Kilroy J. Oldster

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

John Ortberg Jr.

#9. Our failures make us who we are; they build our character, we are defined by what we do with them, and how we respond to adversity. Without failure there is no growth, no striving for better, no adjusting, or dusting yourself off to try again.

J.W. Lord

#10. I've always been accused by my detractors of some sort of moral failure, cowardice, or even lack of humanity by not portraying the human form. I respond that I do better by portraying traces of character and intentions of human volition that no mug or body shot can ever exude.

Robert Polidori

#11. How we respond to moments of interruption determine who we become and how we spend our lives. But you can never fully live in your calling without going through struggle, fear, and failure. Our decisions in those moments determine the legacy we will live.

Chris Marlow

#12. Unfortunately, Susan was not the only one who noticed Ricky's eyes on her; Patty was growing increasingly frustrated by his failure to respond to her overtures, or the reason

Brianne E. Pryor