Quotes About Failure

The history of the failure of war can almost be summed up in two words: too late.

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.

Those who never make mistakes lose a great many chances to learn something

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

Never be afraid to fail. Be afraid of not learning from mistakes.

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

If you are going to have a risk-taking culture, you can't really look at every failure as a failure, you've got to be able to look at the failure as a learning opportunity.

Experience comes from bad judgment.

I have learned all kinds of things from my many mistakes. The one thing I never learn to stop making them.

I am still learning - how to take joy in all the people I am, how to use all my selves in the service of what I believe, how to accept when I fail and rejoice when I succeed.

Surviving a failure gives you more self-confidence. Failures are great learning tools - but they must be kept to a minimum.

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

I take great solace that Einstein failed math. I failed math. I also failed English and home economics. Einstein was an underachiever.

When you are winning too much, sometimes you think you should never lose again. I am learning to lose.

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.

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.

There is no learning without mistakes

The first step in fixing a broken program is getting it to fail repeatably [on the simplest example possible].

People learn from failure or from lack of success.

So winners, Hae-Joo proposed, are the real losers because they learn nothing? What, then, are losers? Winners?

Yet, most every corporate effort to graft this truly innovative practices into their culture has failed because, again and again, people reduce the living practice of AAR's to a sterile technique.

Floundering around, learning by doing but also by failing, is not only good but inevitable.

If you aren't learning, you are regressing, because more growth comes from failure than from success.

I have made so many mistakes but I have learned a lot and I'm confident to say - he who never made a mistake never made any discovery