Learn To Fail Quotes

#1. To learn to succeed, you must first learn to fail.

Michael Jordan

#2. To try and fail is at least to learn; to fail to try is to suffer the inestimable loss of what might have been.

Chester Barnard

#3. To innovate, you must learn to fail well. Learn from your mistakes:

Eric Schmidt

#4. Learn to fail or fail to learn

Tal Ben-Shahar

#5. Learn to fail with pride - and do so fast and cleanly. Maximise trial and error - by mastering the error part.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#6. It's pretty popular today to say that everybody should learn to fail and that failure's a good thing. Intellectually, it's an obvious thing. But in fact, it gets conflated with another meaning of failure, so when we grow up as kids, failing in school was a really bad thing.

Edwin Catmull

#7. When you fail you learn from the mistakes you made and it motivates you to work even harder.

Natalie Gulbis

#8. We must learn to give ourselves permission to blunder, to fail, and to make fools of ourselves every day for the rest of our lives. We do so in any case.

Sheldon B. Kopp

#9. An optimist understands that life can be a bumpy road, but at least it is leading somewhere. They learn from mistakes and failures, and are not afraid to fail again.

Harvey MacKay

#10. An entrepreneur is born with the mentality to take risks, though there are several important characteristics: courage, faith in yourself, and above all, even when you fail, to learn from failure and get up and try again.

Sheldon Adelson

#11. What was interesting was seeing how much of it could work, how much it really would maximize justice, and how it was going to fail. We could learn a lot from that.

Jo Walton

#12. Consistently failing is nothing more than an indication that you are progressing. The more we fail the farther we will see. Failure is not an option; it is the only option. A master is a master because he has had the courage to fail and the wisdom to learn from it.

Chris Matakas

#13. I think what life experience has brought to my poems is compassion. When you work hard to make a living, raise a child up into the world, fail at marriage and try again, teach and fail, travel and fall, become ill, well again, weak but grateful, you learn patience, forbearance.

Dorianne Laux

#14. To move forward today, you must learn to say good-bye to yesterday's hurts, tragedies and baggage. You can't build a monument to past problems and fail forward.

John C. Maxwell

#15. When you're following your dreams, you quickly learn who wants you to succeed and who desires to see you fail. Pay attention and stay focused on what's important.

Delano Johnson

#16. Everyone is an entrepreneur. The only skills you need to be an entrepreneur: an ability to fail, an ability to have ideas, to sell those ideas, to execute on those ideas, and to be persistent so even as you fail you learn and move onto the next adventure.

James Altucher

#17. Learning to fail is a virtue. Failing to learn is a sin.

Paul Sloane

#18. One thing was clear: To give our kids the kind of education they deserved, we had to first agree that rigor mattered most of all; that school existed to help kids learn to think, to work hard, and yes, to fail. That was the core consensus that made everything else possible.

Amanda Ripley

#19. If you're not ready to fail, you're not going to learn how to cook.

Julia Child

#20. The first stair to failure is ignorance. Keep learning by leaning on the lap of information and you'll take the lead!

Israelmore Ayivor

#21. It takes courage to look like an idiot possibly and fall and fail but that's what it takes to learn to succeed so you have to be willing to practice or rehearse to work your risk muscle.

John Assaraf

#22. When I fail or make a mistake, I ask myself what lesson I was supposed to learn or how I can show up differently next time.

Karla Cheatham Mosley

#23. When you fail you learn, and when you learn you grow, and when you grow you move closer to success.

Lindsay Adler

#24. We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

Charles Kettering

#25. I didn't say try to fail. Try and risk failing. That's how people learn.

Melissa Turner Lee

#26. I've had to learn through experiences not to be afraid to fail. You don't know what the future holds for you. You can hope your dreams come true, but you have to be fearless. I don't want to look back and think, What if?

Nastia Liukin

#27. I do not mean you would be a failure, only that it is to be expected that you will not succeed every time, it is not possible. It is not even advisable - for how would you ever learn? It is necessary to fail. You must expect, even joyfully embrace, failing.

Willow Danes

#28. To be one of the special ones, you've got to want to take that shot-you've also got to be willing to fail, learn from it, come back and take that shot again.

Jason Terry

#29. All of us learned how to walk by failing.

J.R. Rim

#30. Receiving, reading, researching, remembering, and reflecting on the Word of God are all useless if we fail to put what we learn into practice.

Rick Warren

#31. Next time you try to do something and fail, and it really was partly in your control, be honest about
why you failed--but also, what you can do better in the future. It's easy to see that blaming
circumstance robs you of opportunities to learn.

Rohvannyn Shaw

#32. Just as I need other human beings in order to learn from them, so I also need their trust. If we aren't aware of that, if we fail to take it to heart and instead betray other people's trust, things will go badly with us.

Desmond Tutu

#33. Learn from your failures & go on to the next challenge. It's okay to fail. If you're not failing, you're not growing.

H. Stanley Judd

#34. Fear and failure are always present. Accept them as part of life and learn how to manage these realities. Be scared, but keep going. Being scared is usually transient. It will pass. If you fail, fix the causes and keep going.

Colin Powell

#35. 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

#36. Fail to learn, not the other way around

NightBits

#37. To improve, we must watch ourselves fail, and learn from our mistakes.

Joshua Foer

#38. How beautiful it is to learn that Grace isn't fragile, and that in the family of God we can fail and not be a failure.

Gloria Gaither

#39. The best people in the world aren't those who never fail - but those who fail and learn something from it. I hope that your goal in life isn't to slide safely into death not having screwed up much.

John Townsend

#40. You need to learn what people have done, but you need to learn where they have failed ... Usually when they fail it is in the execution.

Colin Powell

#41. If you're unwilling to try new things and to fail and learn, you don't have a shot. That doesn't mean you are going to be successful, but you have to try to change.

Edward Lampert

#42. 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.

Roger Von Oech

#43. We can all learn from our failures. What I've learned is how much it hurts to fail.

Ashleigh Brilliant

#44. People frequently fail when they try to do everything at once. They approach a massive project and quickly get discouraged. Taking small, but high-value steps takes less time, and you learn more in the long run.

Tim Ferriss

#45. Ordinarily, small children learn much about emotions by looking at the other person's eyes, while those with autism avoid the eyes and so fail to get those lessons.

Daniel Goleman

#46. You do not fail in life, you only produce results, and you have the right to learn and grow from any results that you produce.

Wayne Dyer

#47. In order to help children make the most of their education, parents must begin to relinquish control and focus on three goals: embracing opportunities to fail, finding ways to learn from that failure, and creating positive home-school relationships.

Jessica Lahey

#48. A person isn't born with the intelligence to be with someone special; you learn it, and you fail in the path of life, but you don't have to give up the chance to love.

Gael Garcia Bernal

#49. When you are solving a difficult problem re-ask the problem so that your solution helps you learn faster. Find a faster way to fail, recover, and try again. If the problem you are trying to solve involves creating a magnum opus, you are solving the wrong problem.

Aza Raskin

#50. In Europe you learn not to fail, and in America you fail to learn. You need failure.

Hartmut Esslinger

#51. Military debriefs have a similar purpose. We can all fail but we all need to learn from failure. We need to manage the size of the risk, and we need to give people the environment to succeed without being constrained by fear of failure.

Damian McKinney

#52. A wholesome sense of humor will be a safety valve that will enable you to apply the lighter touch to heavy problems and to learn some lessons in problem solving that "sweat and tears" often fail to dissolve.

Hugh B. Brown

#53. We fail; we learn. Unless we fail to learn.

Kresley Cole

#54. Do not fail
to learn from
The pure voice of an
Ever-flowing mountain stream
Splashing over the rocks.

Morihei Ueshiba

#55. There is nothing to fear, because you cannot fail ... only learn, grow and become better than you've ever been before.

Hal Elrod

#56. It's good to fail now and again - you learn a lot more out of failure than you do out of success.

Ian Hunter

#57. The past is behind us unless we fail to learn from it.

L.M. Fields

#58. You will fail. That's great. Here's a secret for you - that's the only way you can learn. Learning has to cost you something. If you fail but learn something from your failure, you will grow.

Stella Adler

#59. You can learn, but you've got to give yourself time to pick up the basics, to practice, and maybe even to fail once or twice.

Susan Forward

#60. We have some good ideas here. But the only way to know if they're workable is to try to make them fail. If we fail to fail, then maybe we're on the right track.

Orson Scott Card

#61. You can be shaped, or you can be broken. There is not much in between. Try to learn. Be coachable. Try to learn from everybody, especially those who fail. This is hard ... How promising you are as a Student of the Game is a function of what you can pay attention to without running away.

David Foster Wallace

#62. What you don't know can make you fail! Perhaps the only reason why you are where you are is that, you've not known what you have to know ... Go, learn and take the lead!

Israelmore Ayivor

#63. I somewhat joke that I know an awful lot because I learn from my mistakes. I just make a lot of mistakes. It's OK to fail in science just as long as you have the successes to go with the failures.

Craig Venter

#64. If we fail to learn from our trials and errors then we truly fail.

Lindsey Rietzsch

#65. We should learn to smile as we fall,
So much so as when we have it all.

Ana Claudia Antunes

#66. 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

#67. Fact: From quitting smoking to skiing, we succeed to the degree we try, fail, and learn. Studies show that people who worry about mistakes shut down, but those who are relaxed about doing badly soon learn to do well. Success is built on failure.

Martha Beck

#68. Winston Churchill said: 'Those who fail to learn from history, are doomed to repeat it.

T.B. Markinson

#69. You will only fail to learn if you do not learn from failing.

Stella Adler

#70. Fail fast. Fail often ... The most talented people in the world have bad ideas. That's a good thing to learn.

Rashida Jones

#71. If the plan is to see what happens, a team is guaranteed to succeed - at seeing what happens - but won't necessarily gain validated learning - If you cannot fail, you cannot learn.

Eric Ries

#72. Far more gardens fail because the gardener is absent or not paying attention than because he or she lacks erudition. Yes, you need to know your ABCs [the basics], but the more you garden, the more you'll learn what works and what doesn't.

Barbara Damrosch

#73. When we apply the lessons we've struggled for our whole lives to learn to the lives of people we love, our love becomes judgment - which is toxic. Our fear our daughters will fail leads us to fail them.

Aspen Matis

#74. Girls Scouts taught me to succeed (cookie selling) and to fail (knot tying) and to learn and benefit from both.

Carol Bellamy

#75. I learned very quickly that if you just go out and make something and maybe fail at it or you just learn how to edit it yourself. I edited my last films. You just do it yourself. You feel so creatively empowered and you're controlling your own destiny as artists.

Daryl Wein

#76. Those who fail to learn from the brutal stompings visited on them in the past are doomed to be brutally stomped in the future.

Hunter S. Thompson

#77. Achievers are not scared to make mistakes or to fail because they are willing to learn from them. They are determined to start all over again and again until they grasp the concept.

Euginia Herlihy

#78. You can only really learn from failure ... To win, you need to fail, and fail hard.

Aisha Tyler

#79. Failures are life's way of nudging you and letting you know you are off course. Trying new things and not being afraid to fail along the way are more important than what you learn in school.

Sara Blakely

#80. Courage allows the successful woman to fail - and to learn powerful lessons from the failure - so that in the end, she didn't fail at all.

Maya Angelou

#81. If our goal is not to "succeed" or avoid failure or mistakes, but to learn something, we will never fail.

Jami Gold

#82. We are alive and need to take risks. And if we fail, so what? Who cares? It doesn't matter. Learn and move on without judgement.

Miguel Angel Ruiz

#83. [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

#84. I think you often learn from failure. Success just teaches you how great you were, but in fact it's knowing what will fail that will help you to make the right choices.

Eric Idle

#85. You can only fail better only if you learn from failures. And then failing is something that prompts you to move ahead.

Pearl Zhu

#86. I've permitted myself to learn and to fail with some regularity. And that is probably the one thing I was given, and that I'm still grateful for.

John Malkovich

#87. Try to let what is unfair teach you ... what is unfair can be a stern but invaluable teacher ... you can be shaped, or you can be broken. There is not much in between. Try to learn. Be coachable. Try to learn from everybody, especially those who fail. This is hard.

David Foster Wallace

#88. Don't be afraid to fail. For the love of God, don't be afraid to fail, because you're going to fail. So try to fail as hard as you can is what I would say, because you're always going to get up and you're going to learn something from it.

Monica Raymund

#89. The best of all things is to learn. Money can be lost or stolen, health and strength may fail, but what you have committed to mind is yours forever.

Louis L'Amour

#90. We often promise our friend to hold there hand in time of need and crisis but maximum fails to keep it. Who don't fail is your true friend. Learn to keep the promise. Friendship is ever thing.

Debolina

#91. Even if they're not reaching out to us, we're going to reach out to them anyway and involve them in a meaningful way. Because if we don't, we will fail to learn the lesson of a generation before us, that reached out for us and never let us go.

Kweisi Mfume

#92. Common sense comes from experience, and kids need to fail as well as succeed in order to learn it. It's difficult to develop common sense when you spend a lot of time in your room where nothing much happens.

Marilyn Vos Savant

#93. You're going to fail a few times, because that is the only time you actually learn something.

Hans Zimmer

#94. I think a lot of us think we've failed when we've put the weight back on, but when this happens. you have to pay attention because you can actually learn something. You didn't fail. You just need to stay conscious and know where you went wrong and try again.

Jessie Pavelka

#95. My advice to writers is this:
Walk, talk, breathe, laugh, cry, fall, rise, fail, succeed, run, jump, love, hate, hide, seek, learn, work, play, feel, LIVE.
Then write it down.

S. Alex Martin

#96. Learn how to fail intelligently.

Charles Kettering

#97. You'll fail at some things - that's a learning experience that you need so that you can take that on to the next experience. What you learn from those challenges and those failures are what will get you past the next ones ... I was the pretty consistent bull and the cheerleader on eBay actually.

Pierre Omidyar

#98. Success comes from continuing to strive, fail and learn without losing enthusiasm.

Winston Churchill

#99. To fail at trying is worse than to fail after trying. If we never try, then we never learn.

Lindsey Rietzsch

#100. Your home needs to be a place where your kids can fail - and learn from their failure. Surround them with love, show them how important they are to you, but don't try to undo their failures. It's not our job as parents to get our kids off the hook.

Kevin Leman