Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.
Tom LandryRead
I've learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.
Interpretation
Defeats are opportunities for growth and learning.
This quote by Tom Landry emphasizes that even in setbacks and failures, there are valuable lessons and constructive outcomes to be gained. It encourages a positive perspective on defeat, suggesting that it is a necessary part of the journey toward success and personal development.
In practice
In a motivational speech to a sports team after a tough loss.
Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.
I learned early in sports that to be effective - for a player to play the best he can play - is a matter of concentration and being unaware of distractions, positive or negative.
If you don't win a Super Bowl, you're not considered successful in the National Football League. I can remember, when we finally won that first one, feeling so good for the players and fans.
Character is the ability of a person to see a positive end of things. This is the hope that a man of character has.
There is only a half step difference between the champions and those who finish on the bottom. And much of that half step is mental.
Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.
When I was 15, I decided I wanted to be a lawyer. No one thought this was a good idea
You may have made a lot of wrong choices, but youβve also made a lot of choices that were right. Focus on your good qualities. Focus on your victories. Get off the treadmill of guilt.
If the thing you wish to do is right, and YOU BELIEVE IN IT, go ahead and do it! Put your dreams across, and never mind what 'they' say if you meet with temporary defeat, for 'they' perhaps, do not know that every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success.
I taught myself confidence. When I'd walk into a room and feel scared to death, I'd tell myself, 'I'm not afraid of anybody.' And people believed me. You've got to teach yourself to take over the world.
Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
A dream that you don't fight for can haunt you for the rest of your life.
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