Learning From Failure Quotes

Nothing fails like success, because we do not learn anything from it. We only learn from failure, but we do not always learn the right things from failure. If there is a failure of expectations, that is, if the messages that we receive are not the same as those we expected, we can make three possible inferences.

Giving up is the only sure way to fail.

My reputation grows with every failure.

The real test is not whether you avoid failure, because you won't. It's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it. . .

You can't have any successes unless you can accept failure.

There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure-all your life.

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.

We are all failures - at least the best of us are.

Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

Remember that failure is an event, not a person.

A refined ability to learn from failure and to grow through losses is necessary to achieve excellence in any human endeavor.

If the whole process of learning from failure means discarding stuff that's not working, but in fact, our natural reaction is to keep going, to throw more money behind it, to throw more emotional energy behind it... that's a real problem.

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.

You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone.

We learn from failure, not from success!

We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

When we face our problems, they disappear. So learn from failure and let success be the silent incentive.

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet. Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker

Failure is delay, but not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead-end street.

We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure-all your life.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.

It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

Failure is not the opposite of success; it's part of success.

If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.

Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.

If you're not prepared to be wrong, you're not prepared to be original.

Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach.

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

Disasters are funny to me. As a comedian you learn from failure, so I'm always trying to put myself in a situation that does not seem ideal for my comedy and see how it works.

When one door closes another door opens. Usually a refrigerator.

Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories.

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.

We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.

Courage is the ability to go from failure to failure with enthusiasm.