Top 100 Learning Failure Quotes
#1. The first stair to failure is ignorance. Keep learning by leaning on the lap of information and you'll take the lead!
Israelmore Ayivor
#2. Learning is about failure and recovery from failure.
Roger Schank
#3. 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
#4. Innovators "view failure not as a fatal character flaw but as a learning experience.
Jason Jennings
#5. Failure was being used as a weapon, rather than as an agent of learning.
Ed Catmull
#6. 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
#8. Learning to fail is a virtue. Failing to learn is a sin.
Paul Sloane
#9. With self-courage, self-confidence and self-will, you will master the act.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#10. 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
#11. There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hardwork, and learning from failure-
Colin Powell
#12. 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
#13. 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
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. Mistakes are great teachers. They are stern, confident and fierce in
redirecting you from what you should not do; to what you should do.
Kunle Olusegun-Emmanuel
#18. The first important step in weathering failure is learning not to personalize it.
John C. Maxwell
#19. If you learn from every mistake, you never fail at anything.
Donald L. Hicks
#20. 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
#21. What matters more than where you are is the direction you are heading.
Cameron C. Taylor
#23. Lucy: You learn more when you lose
Charlie Brown: Well then I must be the smartest person in world!!!
Charles M. Schulz
#24. Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.
Anonymous
#25. 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
#26. Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
John Dewey
#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. One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
John W. Gardner
#29. Surviving a failure gives you more self-confidence. Failures are great learning tools.. but they must be kept to a minimum.
Jeffrey R. Immelt
#30. 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
#31. 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
#32. [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
#33. I need people who look at adversity as a challenge and failure as a learning opportunity.
John Calipari
#34. 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
#35. It is those who have the distinction of privilege who set the standards of disgust with failure.
Andy Hargreaves
#36. 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
#37. There are no secrets to success: don't waste time looking for them. Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty to those for whom you work, and persistence.
Colin Powell
#38. 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
#39. Appreciate every little improvement. Forget to criticize every failure as long as you are learning from them.
Debasish Mridha
#40. Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.
Kenneth E. Boulding
#41. One barrier ... is the impoverishment of classroom language, the failure to cultivate a common vocabulary about inquiry, explanation, argument and problem solving.
David Perkins
#42. Forgiving ourselves and learning from our inevitable mistakes transforms failure from a stumbling block into a stepping stone.
L.R. Knost
#43. We learn from failure, not from success!
Bram Stoker
#44. 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
#45. There are no secrets to success. It's the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.
Colin Powell
#46. ... experimental failure, the disproving of a theory, was as important to the advancement of learning as a success would be.
Daniel Keyes
#48. No learning can make up for the failure to pray. No earnestness, no diligence, no study, no gifts will supply its lack.
Edward McKendree Bounds
#49. Failure is not an option, winning or learning are the options.
Debasish Mridha
#50. 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
#51. The learning person looks forward to failure or mistakes. The worst problem in leadership is basically early success.
Warren G. Bennis
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. Failure is a natural part of learning and developing, and it teaches us to be resolute and steadfast in our endeavors.
Henry Kimsey-House
#55. Failure can only exist from stagnant perceptions. Everything is a process of learning and if you learn something useful, you have success.
Michael Arndt
#56. 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
#57. Failure is a learning experience, and the guy who has never failed has never done anything.
Wilson Greatbatch
#58. When it comes to learning success, action is your school, and failure your teacher.
Majid Kazmi
#59. 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
#60. If you accept failure as learning,
it's not discouraging to keep adapting until you find success.
Martin Zwilling
#61. I was learning the craft; I didn't study writing in school. Rejection was my motivation, and failure is what taught me.
Pierce Brown
#63. I think it's only failure if you put the word failure on it. I think it's part of the process of learning where you're going to go and what doesn't work.
Daymond John
#67. Teams that focus on learning from failure outperform those that don't, but not everyone works in an organization that takes the long view.
Sheryl Sandberg
#68. 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
#69. There's always failure. And there's always disappointment. And there's always loss. But the secret is learning from the loss, and realizing that none of those holes are vacuums.
Michael J. Fox
#70. You will only fail to learn if you do not learn from failing.
Stella Adler
#71. We will not have failure - only success and new learning.
Queen Victoria
#72. A person who cultivates any interest in self-improvement will necessary encounter successes and failures, both of which life lessons can be useful to remember when seeking distant mileposts. Failure stimulates evaluation and new learning. Success stimulates development and retention of good habits.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#73. To ensure longterm failure is not an option, one must learn from many short-term failures.
Orrin Woodward
#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. 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
#77. 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
#78. 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
#80. Not only weren't they discouraged by failure, they didn't even think they were failing. They thought they were learning.
Carol S. Dweck
#82. [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
#83. 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
#84. You have to honor failure, because failure is just the negative space around success.
Richard R. Nelson
#85. 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
#86. 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
#87. Our schools should be the same - environments for safe experimentation, viewing failure as an opportunity for learning rather than a mark of shame.
Salman Khan
#88. Mistakes should be examined, learned from, and discarded; not dwelled upon and stored.
Tim Fargo
#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. In collaborative cultures, failure and uncertainty are not protected but shared and discussed to gain support.
Andy Hargreaves
#91. 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
#93. If you fall, you fall," Elodin shrugged. "Sometimes falling teaches us things too." In dreams you often fall before you wake.
Patrick Rothfuss
#94. 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
#95. 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
#96. 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
#97. You're saying she doesn't do her work? So take care of your business! Fail her like a normal kid. The failure will be between me and my daughter, then. You won't like it if her failure is between me and you.
Esme Raji Codell
#98. Victory is not possible, if one doesn't learn from the past and mistakes made.
Auliq Ice
#100. 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
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