Top 100 Failure Learning Quotes
#2. There are no secrets to success. It's the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.
Colin Powell
#4. Failure is not an option, winning or learning are the options.
Debasish Mridha
#5. Life is not about picking out the parts you like and leaving the rest, it's learning to coexist with it all and choosing to see the beauty, the grace, and the hilarity while also experiencing the inevitable disappointment and failure.
Alexis Jones
#7. Learning is about failure and recovery from failure.
Roger Schank
#8. I saw why people died and how they died. I saw gunshot wounds and liver failure. It was a good learning experience, so I came regularly on weekends and holidays.
Michael Baden
#9. Innovators "view failure not as a fatal character flaw but as a learning experience.
Jason Jennings
#10. Failure was being used as a weapon, rather than as an agent of learning.
Ed Catmull
#11. I'm more afraid of success than failure. Success makes us so sure of ourselves that we do not analyze the factors that lead us to our success. Instead, in failure there's an error that lurks that makes us reflect and in that process there is learning and that makes us better
Jorge Valdano
#13. Learning to fail is a virtue. Failing to learn is a sin.
Paul Sloane
#14. Many great people have experienced some kind of failure. They build on the lessons from failing to become great.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#15. Paduk and all the rest wrote on steadily, but Krug's failure was complete, a baffling and hideous disaster, for he had been busy becoming an elderly man instead of learning the simple but now unobtainable passages which they, mere boys, had memorized.
Vladimir Nabokov
#16. There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hardwork, and learning from failure-
Colin Powell
#17. Learning is never aversive - usually we are not aware of it at all. It is failure to learn that is frustrating and boring, and so is having to attend to nonsensical activities.
Frank Smith
#18. In discovery- driven planning, learning is the essential unit of progress. A course correction isn't equivalent to failure, it's an opportunity to re-calibrate so you can move more quickly up the learning curve.
Whitney Johnson
#19. I guess just accepting failure is the thing. I don't really look at it as a failure. I look at them as learning lessons and things you grow from but not really a failure, because that's life.
Daniella Alonso
#20. One should learn by considering one's own failures that are a part of life.
Eraldo Banovac
#21. The first important step in weathering failure is learning not to personalize it.
John C. Maxwell
#22. If you learn from every mistake, you never fail at anything.
Donald L. Hicks
#23. Learning from the success and failure of others is the fastest way to get smarter and wiser without a lot of pain.
Tren Griffin
#24. I have learned to not let a bad race or failure bring me down, and always walking away with something positive and learning from mistakes so I can be better or stronger next time.
Erin Hamlin
#25. I have witnessed boards that continued to waste money on doomed projects because no one was prepared to admit they were failures, take the blame and switch course. Smaller outfits are more willing to admit mistakes and dump bad ideas.
Luke Johnson
#26. I need people who look at adversity as a challenge and failure as a learning opportunity.
John Calipari
#27. Nobody likes to fail but failure is an essential part of life and of learning. If your uniform isn't dirty, you haven't been in the game.
Ben Bernanke
#28. Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
Colin Powell
#29. Failure to recognize learning styles in public schools has promoted a standard lecture format for teaching, which has frustrated the learning of many.
Rick Blackwood
#30. failure is a manifestation of learning and exploration.
Ed Catmull
#32. Failure isn't bad if it doesn't attack the heart. Success is all right if it doesn't go to the head.
Grantland Rice
#33. Fail Fast: break items into small chunks which allows for more experimentation, leading to more chances for success Fail Forward: learn from what didn't work, but continue toward what will work Fail Better: the best way to increase our amount of learning is to increase our amount of failure
Erik Qualman
#34. Failure is normal expression of an action's re-action. learning is secondary in this process .it is only prime to recognize true capacity within ourselves.it is a tool to transform the same person in new one with new value and outlook towards the same old world.
Ratna M.munshi
#35. The child does not begin to fall until she becomes seriously interested in walking, until she actually begins walking. Falling is thus more an indication of learning than a sign of failure.
Polly Berrien Berends
#37. [W]e are not merely tempered and schooled by failure but compelled, in however subtle a fashion, to become something other than we were.
Anthony Lane
#38. A teacher's failure to create an intellectually reflective, engagement for learning is not simply malpractice but it is immoral particularly for students who cannot withdraw.
John Goodlad
#39. FAILURE DENOTES:
F - Fall
A - Arise
I - Intuitive thinking
L - Learning process
U - Undeterred soul
R - Renew thoughts
E - Experiments new thinking.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#40. Remembering where and why you fell and learning the lessons well is a good starting point to start all over again with a broaden insight and a renewed fortitude and wit to dare again for victory!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#41. Like success, failure is many things to many people. With a 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.
W. Clement Stone
#42. Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.
Wilma Rudolph
#43. Many times what we perceive as an error or failure is actually a gift. And eventually we find that lessons learned from that discouraging experience prove to be of great worth.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#44. Learning how young people work is imperative - because getting the most out of employees can be the difference between success and failure for many companies.
Charlie Caruso
#45. Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
John Dewey
#46. Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.
Kenneth E. Boulding
#47. One barrier ... is the impoverishment of classroom language, the failure to cultivate a common vocabulary about inquiry, explanation, argument and problem solving.
David Perkins
#48. Forgiving ourselves and learning from our inevitable mistakes transforms failure from a stumbling block into a stepping stone.
L.R. Knost
#49. I am, after all, an adult, a grown man, a useful human being, even though I lost the career that made me all these things. I won't make that mistake again.
Gillian Flynn
#50. Failure is a great teacher, and I think when you make mistakes and you recover from them and you treat them as valuable learning experiences, then you've got something to share.
Steve Harvey
#51. I was learning the craft; I didn't study writing in school. Rejection was my motivation, and failure is what taught me.
Pierce Brown
#52. In learning to Juggle, the angst comes from failure - from having the ball fall to the floor. So with step one, numb aspiring jugglers to that. Having the ball fall to the floor becomes more normal than the ball not falling to the floor.
Tom Kelly
#53. Victory is not possible, if one doesn't learn from the past and mistakes made.
Auliq Ice
#54. Innovations succeed when failure is seen as a learning step to great success.
Pearl Zhu
#55. No matter how loud the sirens or how numerous the hazard signs, we all touch the flames at least once to prove they're hot.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#56. The constant desire to win is a very American kind of trouble. Less glamorous gains made along the way--learning, wisdom, growth, and confidence, dealing with failure--aren't given the same respect because they can't be given a grade.
William Zinsser
#58. When failure is not an option we can forget about learning, creativity, and innovation.
Brene Brown
#59. Put off the fire of pride and save your life from burning with flames of failure. Pride is the reason why many dreams only survive as ashes today. Learn the lesson; hung on to humility!
Israelmore Ayivor
#60. 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.
Tim Harford
#61. I have learned that failure is a part of success; it's part of the learning curve. Sometimes you have to walk that road to achieve big things.
Luis Gerardo Mendez
#63. One of the key things is learning which bits of life you don't need to take seriously. Usually far more than you expect.
Penny Grubb
#64. Rather than always impose your will,
allow men to learn from their mistakes.
Great failures make great teachers;
success enables one to forget some things
a failure cannot afford to.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#66. If we fail to learn from our trials and errors then we truly fail.
Lindsey Rietzsch
#67. The learning person looks forward to failure or mistakes. The worst problem in leadership is basically early success.
Warren G. Bennis
#70. When you are the central character in a seemingly boiling pit of "busy-ness" the time will come when the pace of decline cannot be countered. You build yourself the circumstances of ultimate failure by failing to grow, by failing to act on your learnings.
Tony Curl
#71. You will only fail to learn if you do not learn from failing.
Stella Adler
#72. We will not have failure - only success and new learning.
Queen Victoria
#73. I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it
Reggie Jackson
#74. Until a person has failed significantly or missed the boat, they will not know how to hold the tension until the right moment or how to test the waters before pushing on.
Michael Meade
#75. The survival of poor opinions can make a thinker feel as though he is failing humanity.
Criss Jami
#76. Part of being a man is learning to take responsibility for your successes and for your failures. You can't go blaming others or being jealous. Seeing somebody else's success as your failure is a cancerous way to live.
Kevin Bacon
#77. Failure is a great teacher; but never insist on hiring one for yourself. Learn vicariously from others' teachers.
Ashok Kallarakkal
#78. What matters more than where you are is the direction you are heading.
Cameron C. Taylor
#80. Lucy: You learn more when you lose
Charlie Brown: Well then I must be the smartest person in world!!!
Charles M. Schulz
#81. Success or failure is not a one day event, but continuous life process. Each day you succeed and each day you fail with life, and most of the time, success follows the failure.
Roshan Sharma
#82. Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.
Anonymous
#83. Sometimes you just have to pick a direction and make mistakes. Then you use what you learn from your failure to pick new, better directions so you can make more mistakes and keep learning.
Matthew Quick
#84. Appreciate every little improvement. Forget to criticize every failure as long as you are learning from them.
Debasish Mridha
#85. When we are unable to love and appreciate ourselves and our efforts, we run away from our mistakes and failures, rather than learning from them.
Meredith L. Young-Sowers
#86. Failure is rich in learning opportunities for a simple reason: in many of its guises, it represents a violation of expectation.6 It is showing us that the world is in some sense different from the way we imagined it to be.
Matthew Syed
#87. Not only weren't they discouraged by failure, they didn't even think they were failing. They thought they were learning.
Carol S. Dweck
#88. [John] Kobak explained, 'The way you learn anything is that something fails, and you figure out how not to have it fail again.
Robert S. Arrighi
#89. If there is one lesson I've learned from failure and success, it's this. I am not the outcome. I am never the result. I am only the effort.
Kamal Ravikant
#90. It is essential that we develop a learning space where failure is positive, as it is a catalyst for growth and change. Students need to recognize that taking a risk and not succeeding does not mean they are failing: It means they need to try another way. After
Starr Sackstein
#91. Not learning how to read is not another style of literacy, and not learning to see others as ends in themselves is not another style of ethics. It is a failure of ethics.
Sam Harris
#92. Play is kids' work in that it is a form of experiential learning that contributes directly to a person's ability to handle failure, to work in teams, and to take risks.
Jill Vialet
#93. Kindness, I think, comes from learning hard lessons well, from falling and picking yourself up. It comes from surviving failure and loss. It implies an understanding of the human condition, forgives its many flaws and quirks.
Lisa Unger
#94. Mistakes should be examined, learned from, and discarded; not dwelled upon and stored.
Tim Fargo
#95. Nothing helps make a leader more approachable than admitting your struggles, screw-ups and behind-the-scenes thinking on hard calls. If the leader makes this a priority, the whole company will be more open and methodical learning from failure.
Scott Weiss
#96. In collaborative cultures, failure and uncertainty are not protected but shared and discussed to gain support.
Andy Hargreaves
#97. Yes, there can be no innovation, learning, or creativity without failure. But failing is painful. It fuels the "shouldas and couldas," which means judgment and shame are often lying in wait
Brene Brown
#98. If you fall, you fall," Elodin shrugged. "Sometimes falling teaches us things too." In dreams you often fall before you wake.
Patrick Rothfuss
#99. When most people hit failure, they give up, but good entrepreneurs simply treat failure as a learning experience and use it to fuel and inform their next move.
Trip Adler
#100. FAIL UP. If something doesn't go how you planned it, learn from it, do something differently next time. And, by the way, effort deserves credit. Pat yourself on the back!
Beth Ramsay
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