This is a collection of quotes from one of my all time favorite books, "Failing Forward" by John C. Maxwell. I highly recommend this book to anyone who has dealt with failure or disappointment in their life. You will gain a new perspective on failure and learn how to turn failure into a stepping stone for success. Through this book you will learn that the difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure. Maxwell will provide straightforward principles for overcoming failure and solid steps to help you become the achiever you've always wanted to be. Pick up a copy of this book and stop failing backward and start failing forward.
Enjoy,
Kevin Richardson
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Quotes from Failing Forward
Failing Forward: Turning Mistakes into Stepping Stones for Success.
"Failure is an inside job. So is success. If you want to achieve, you have to win the war in your thinking first. You can't let the failure outside you get inside you." -John Maxwell
"Ninety percent of all those who fail are not actually defeated. They simply quit." -Paul J. Meyer
"One of the greatest problems people have with failure is that they are too quick to judge isolated situations in their lives and label them as failures. Instead, they need to keep the bigger picture in mind."
"The better a man is, the more mistakes he will make, for the more new things he will try. I would never promote to a top-level job a man who was not making mistakes... otherwise he is sure to be mediocre." -Peter Drucker
"The fight to take responsibility occurs within. And rarely does talent, intelligence, or opportunity make the difference in whether a person wins that battle. It calls for character." -John C. Maxwell
"Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves-to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our today." Stewart B. Johnson.
"Sooner or later we get just what we expect."
"It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of our responsibilities." -Sir Josiah Stamp
"If you always do what you've always done, then you will always get what you've always gotten."
"The Question is not if you will have problems, but how you are going to deal with your problems." - John C. Maxwell
"There is no achievement wihout failure." - John C. Maxwell
"The Average for entrepreneurs is 3.8 failures before they finally make it in business." - Lisa Amos
"People who fail forward are able to see errors or negative experiences as a regular part of life, learn from them, and then move on. They persevere in order to achieve their purpose in life." - John C. Maxwell
"Each of us has to make a choice. Are we going to sleep life away, avoiding failure at all costs? Or are we going to wake up and realize this: Failure is simply a price we pay to achieve success." - John C. Maxwell
"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." - Thomas Edison
"What distinguishes winners from losers is that winners concentrate at all times on what they can do, not on what they can't do." - Bob Butera
"Don't waste energy trying to cover up failure. Learn from your failures and go on to the next challenge. It's okay to fail. If you're not failing, your not growing. - H. Stanley Judd
"Every failure you experience is a fork in the road. It's an opportunity to take action, learn from your mistakes, and begin again." - John C. Maxwell
"A man is not defeated by his opponents but by himself." - Jan Christiaan Smuts
"Why worry about things you can't control when you can keep yourself busy controlling the things that depend on you?" - John C. Maxwell
"Change yourself, and your world changes." - John C. Maxwell
"Grasp the positive benefits of negative experiences." - John C. Maxwell
"To achieve your dreams, you must embrace adversity and make failure a regular part of your life. If you're not failing, you're probably not moving forward." - John C. Maxwell
"While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior." - Henry C. Link
"Risk must be evaluated not by the fear it generates in you or the probability of your success, but by the value of the goal." - John C. Maxwell
"The less you venture out, the greater your risk of failure. Ironically the more you risk failure-and actually fail-the greater your chances of success." - John C. Maxwell
"Little progress is better than no progress at all". - John C. Maxwell
"Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable." - Sydney J. Harris - If you take risks and fail, you'll have fewer regrets than if you "do nothing and fail.
"You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great."
"When you get an insight or inspiration, do something about it in twenty-four hours - or the odds are against you ever acting on it." - Bill Glass
"Your attitude toward failure determines your altitude after failure." - John C. Maxwell
"The most important thing in life is not to capitalize on our gains. Any fool can do that. The really important thing is to profit from your losses. That requires intelligence; and it makes the difference between a man of sense and a fool." - Sydney Harris
"I Learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." - Wolfgang Puck
"Learning is defined as a change in behavior. You haven't learned a thing until you can take action and use it." - Ken Blanchard
"The common denominator of success lies in forming the habit of doing things that failures don't like to do." - Albert Gray
"More than anything else, what keeps a person going in the midst of adversity is having a sense of purpose. It is the fuel that powers persistence." - John C. Maxwell
"Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races, one after another." - Walter Elliot
"Never say die. Never be satisfied. Be stubborn. Be persistent. Integrity is a must. Anything worth having is worth striving for with all your might." - Orville Redenbacher
"Experience is not what happens to you. Experience is what you do with what happens to you." - Aldous Huxley
"He who makes no mistakes never makes anything" - Old English Proverb
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What a great book to change your outlook on failure. Do not let failure keep you from reaching your potential. Learn from the failure and use it to propel you toward success.
Expect Success,
Kevin Richardson
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