"You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down"

This quote by Mary Pickford is a pointer that failure is not an irreversible state. It is not the act of stopping working that defines us, but how we react to it. We can pick to stay down and be defeated by our failures, or we can select to get back up and begin fresh. This quote encourages us to take control of our lives and not let our failures specify us. It reminds us that we have the power to start anew and make something of ourselves, no matter how many times we have failed in the past. We can select to gain from our errors and use them as a stepping stone to success. This quote is a tip that we have the power to produce our own fate and that failure is not the end.