Learning From Failure Quotes

Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.
     - Og Mandino -

Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
     - Abraham Lincoln -

The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.
     - Dr. Joyce Brothers -

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
     - Elbert Hubbard -

If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative
     - Woody Allen -

Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
     - William Saroyan -

In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.
     - Anthony D’Angelo -

Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction.
     - Al Bernstein -

Victory is sweetest when you’ve known defeat.
     - Malcolm Forbes -

You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.
     - Michael Johnson -

From success to failure is one step; from failure to success is a long road.
     - Yiddish Proverb -

Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one a second time.
     - Josh Billings -

Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
     - Al Franken -

Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.
     - James Anthony Froude - 

Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
     - Robert Louis Stevenson -

The things that hurt us teach us.
     - Author Unknown - 

Being defeated is often only a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
     - Marilyn vos Savant -

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
     - Abraham Lincoln

You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.
     - Author unknown -

Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.
     - Zig Ziglar -

It’s how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success.
     - David Feherty -

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