Quotes About Failure

"Leaders must constantly emphasize that mistakes are learning opportunities rather than cause for embarrassment or punishment."

— Francesca Gino and Bradley Staats

"Failure, even for individuals who have a growth mind-set can still be painful, but it doesn't define you as a learner. Failure reveals problems that must be faced, dealt with and learned from. Failure should provide feedback and a solution to be followed."

— Francesca Gino and Bradley Staats

"If there is no struggle, there is no progress Those who profess to favour freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without blowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle."

— Frederick Douglass

"You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you"

— Walt Disney

"Don't be afraid of failure, don't be afraid to innovate, don't be afraid of new arenas."

— Elon Musk

"Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little."

— Edmund Burke

"Individuals with growth mind-set, who believe that intelligence and talents can be enhanced through effort, regard mistakes as opportunities to learn and improve. By contrast, individuals with fixed mind-set, who believe that intelligence and talents are innate and unchangeable, think mistakes signal a lack of ability"

— Carol Dweck

"A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake."

— Confucius

"Failures can be a powerful way to learn and ironically provide the means for life's greatest breakthroughs and successes."

— C. Manz

"People with growth mind-set embrace challenges and mistakes and confront their deficiencies."

— Carol Dweck

"Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?"

— Peter McWilliams

"Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough."

— Og Mandino

"Time is like a river that carries us forward into encounters with reality that requires us to make decisions. We can't stop our movement down this river and we can't avoid those encounters. We can only approach them in the best possible way."

— Ray Dalio, author

"From errors of others, a wise man corrects his own."

— Publilius Syrus

"Mistakes are learning opportunities"

— Unknown

"People with a growth mind-set, see difficulty as a natural part of learning, so they are more likely to take it in stride and find new strategies that work better."

— Carol Dweck

"That which does not kill me makes me stronger."

— Friedrich Nietzche

"Problems then become merely challenging opportunities that we can turn to our advantage. They provide opportunities for personal growth and can stimulate our creativity for finding better ways to live."

— C. Manz

"Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes."

— John Dewey

"The most important key to success is how we handle setbacks and challenges"

— Unknown

"Success isn't about the end result, it's about what you learn along the way."

— Vera Wang

"Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away hunger."

— Saint Basil

"Every adversity carries with it the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit."

— Napoleon Hill

"Mishaps are like knives that either serve us or cut us as we grasp them by the blade or the handle."

— James Russell Lowell

"The value of failure is in the learning and growth that it provides. Without learning and growth, failure can be a destructive force in our lives."

— C. Manz

"A growth mind-set allows each individual to embrace learning, to welcome challenges, mistakes, and feedback, and to understand the role of effort in creating talent."

— Carol Dweck

"Complaining is an obvious sign of a fixed mind-set. A growth mind-set looks for opportunity in everything, so there's no room for complaints."

— Dr Travis Bradberry

"From their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future."

— Plutarch

"Each bruise is a lesson. Each lesson makes us better."

— Syrio Forel, A Game of Thrones character

"Failure can be a painful experience. But it doesn't define you. It's a problem to be faced, dealt with, and learned from."

— Carol Dweck

"It is a rough road that leads to the height of greatness."

— Seneca

"You will never be the person you can be if pressure, tension and discipline are taken out of your life."

— Dr James G Biley

"There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure."

— Colin Powell

"How many people are completely successful in every department of life? Not one. The most successful people are the ones who learn from their mistakes and turn their failures into opportunities."

— Zig Ziglar

"Grit is perseverance, or stick-to-it-iveness. Grit is important for children and adults alike because if you are taking on challenges, setbacks are inevitable. The difference is how we react to setbacks."

— Angela Duckworth

"Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave."

— Mary Tyler Moore

"Some of the greatest successes resulted from the worst failures."

— Winston Churchill.

"It is essential, above all, that in making history we do not forget to learn by history, to see our mistakes as well as our successes, our weaknesses as well as our strengths."

— Van Gogh

"Life is not waiting for the storms to pass. It's about learning how to dance in the rain."

— Vienne Greene.

"I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much."

— Mother Teresa