Quotes About Learning From Failure

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hardwork, and learning from failure-

Colin Powell

#5. There are no secrets to success. It's the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.

Colin Powell

#6. 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

#7. Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.

Colin Powell

#8. 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

#9. The survival of poor opinions can make a thinker feel as though he is failing humanity.

Criss Jami

#10. 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

#11. To ensure longterm failure is not an option, one must learn from many short-term failures.

Orrin Woodward

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. We will not have failure - only success and new learning.

Queen Victoria

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

Stella Adler

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. Any disaster is a learning process.

Julia Child

#19. We learn from education, experience and people.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#20. Don't lose heart. Every disappointment is an awakening.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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

J.M. Barrie

#22. The learning person looks forward to failure or mistakes. The worst problem in leadership is basically early success.

Warren G. Bennis

#23. 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

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

Lindsey Rietzsch

#25. You are never defeated in life, you are only a learner.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#26. I was learning the craft; I didn't study writing in school. Rejection was my motivation, and failure is what taught me.

Pierce Brown

#27. If you accept failure as learning,
it's not discouraging to keep adapting until you find success.

Martin Zwilling

#28. 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

#29. When it comes to learning success, action is your school, and failure your teacher.

Majid Kazmi

#30. People learn from failure or from lack of success.

Malcolm Turnbull

#31. Failure is a learning experience, and the guy who has never failed has never done anything.

Wilson Greatbatch

#32. 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

#33. Failure can only exist from stagnant perceptions. Everything is a process of learning and if you learn something useful, you have success.

Michael Arndt

#34. 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

#35. Don't fear the unknown. Embrace the opportunity. Failure is not permanent it is the essence of learning.

W. Brett Wilson

#36. Failure is a natural part of learning and developing, and it teaches us to be resolute and steadfast in our endeavors.

Henry Kimsey-House

#37. 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

#38. When failure is not an option we can forget about learning, creativity, and innovation.

Brene Brown

#39. Learning starts with failure; the first failure is the beginning of education.

John Hersey

#40. Learning starts with failure.

Josiah Bancroft

#41. 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

#42. 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

#43. Innovations succeed when failure is seen as a learning step to great success.

Pearl Zhu

#44. Learning to accept failure on multiple levels is, to my way of thinking, the key to become a world-class therapist. But that means humility, and setting your ego aside, while you develop superb new technical skills.

David D. Burns

#45. I don't fail, I either succeed or learn.

Dr.Khalid Azzam

#46. Victory is not possible, if one doesn't learn from the past and mistakes made.

Auliq Ice

#47. 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

#48. Action learning particularly obliges subjects to become aware of their own value systems, by demanding that the real problems tackled carry some risk of personal failure.

Reg Revans

#49. 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

#50. To give up too easily leads to regret, yet trying and then failing can lead us to second chances if we do not accept it as a failure, but a chance to learn.

Karen White

#51. 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

#52. 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

#53. 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

#54. If you fall, you fall," Elodin shrugged. "Sometimes falling teaches us things too." In dreams you often fall before you wake.

Patrick Rothfuss

#55. Fear is the greatest obstacle to any adventure.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#56. 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

#57. In collaborative cultures, failure and uncertainty are not protected but shared and discussed to gain support.

Andy Hargreaves

#58. Life is all about learning and one of the most memorable ways of learning something is by messing up.

Wayne Dyer

#59. Why don't you dare the impossible?

Lailah Gifty Akita

#60. Mistakes should be examined, learned from, and discarded; not dwelled upon and stored.

Tim Fargo

#61. 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

#62. 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

#63. 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

#64. 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

#65. 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

#66. You have to honor failure, because failure is just the negative space around success.

Richard R. Nelson

#67. 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

#68. [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

#69. Failure is nothing more than learning how to win.

Robin S. Sharma

#70. Sometimes it feels like you have nothing, or aren't going anywhere, but while you're waiting for fortune to deliver you, there is always something you can do to help yourself, or teach yourself to better your situation.

A.J. Darkholme

#71. Not only weren't they discouraged by failure, they didn't even think they were failing. They thought they were learning.

Carol S. Dweck

#72. Failure doesn't Teach us!
Learning from it, is our Choice.

Vineet Raj Kapoor

#73. 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

#74. 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

#75. Appreciate every little improvement. Forget to criticize every failure as long as you are learning from them.

Debasish Mridha

#76. 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

#77. Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.

Anonymous

#78. 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

#79. Lucy: You learn more when you lose
Charlie Brown: Well then I must be the smartest person in world!!!

Charles M. Schulz

#80. In fact, mistakes are life's way of teaching us the right way to do things.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

#81. What matters more than where you are is the direction you are heading.

Cameron C. Taylor

#82. Failure is a great teacher; but never insist on hiring one for yourself. Learn vicariously from others' teachers.

Ashok Kallarakkal

#83. Learning from the successes and failures of others is key to making quantum leaps toward our goals.

Robin Crow

#84. 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

#85. 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

#86. 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

#87. Learning from the success and failure of others is the fastest way to get smarter and wiser without a lot of pain.

Tren Griffin

#88. If you learn from every mistake, you never fail at anything.

Donald L. Hicks

#89. The first important step in weathering failure is learning not to personalize it.

John C. Maxwell

#90. One should learn by considering one's own failures that are a part of life.

Eraldo Banovac

#91. 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

#92. 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

#93. 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

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

Israelmore Ayivor

#95. 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

#96. 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

#97. 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

#98. With self-courage, self-confidence and self-will, you will master the act.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#99. Even the tallest trees always begin as a seed.

A.J. Darkholme

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

Paul Sloane