Quotes on Learning From Failure

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

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

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

The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.

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

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

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

Let’s face it, we’re all imperfect and we’re going to fall short on occasion. But we must learn from failure and that will enable us to avoid repeating our mistakes. Through adversity, we learn, grow stronger, and become better people.

There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker

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.

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