By Alfred Adler
SIMILAR QUOTES
I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals and I loathe humanity for its failure to live up to these possibilities.
What is courage? Courage is the willingness to risk failure…There is only one danger I find in life, and that, indeed, is a real one. You may take too many precautions.
Nobody adopts antisocial behavior unless they fear that they will fail if they remain on the social side of life.
No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma – but we make out of them just what suits our purposes.
It is the individual who is not interested in his fellow men who has the greatest difficulties in life and provides the greatest injury to others. It is from among such individuals that all human failures spring.
All failures are so because they lack social interest.
All failures – neurotics, psychotics, criminals, drunkards, problem children, suicides, perverts, and prostitutes – are failures because they are lacking in social interest.
It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.
The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action.
If we don’t succeed, we run the risk of failure.
All wars signify the failure of conflict resolution mechanisms, and they need post-war rebuilding of faith, trust and confidence.
I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.
It doesn’t matter if you’re a model maker, a potter, a dancer, a programmer, a writer, a political activist, a teacher, a musician, a milliner, whatever. It’s all the same. Making is making, and none of it is failure.
Failure is always an option.
Rejection isn’t failure. Failure is giving up. Everybody gets rejected. It’s how you handle it that determines where you’ll end up.
We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don’t. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.
Everyone at some point in life have faced rejection and failure, it is part of the process to self-realisation.
You have to take control of your dreams. Failure and rejection are only the first step to succeeding.
I find rejection or failure to be a really interesting and valuable experience.
We are punished for our laziness not only with our failures, but with other’s success.
