I was able to overcome my failures because I was always confident of my abilities and was sure I could achieve what I had set out for.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My success was due to good luck, hard work, and support and advice from friends and mentors. But most importantly, it depended on me to keep trying after I had failed.
I never felt I was incapable of succeeding because I felt confident I could always learn what I needed to know.
I was brought up to believe that there is no such thing as failure as long as I'm trying my best. So I've had a 'blood, guts and glory' approach through my whole life.
I've always had to have some kind of failure before I was successful.
I am far more comfortable with failure than I ever will be with success.
If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.
At first I wasn't sure that I had the talent, but I did know I had a fear of failure, and that fear compelled me to fight off anything that might abet 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.
I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.
Failure is fantastic, because you meet yourself and get to know your limitations. This is how I express myself, and I can't do it any other way.