Richard Branson Quotes

Pain is a teacher from whom we can learn much.

You learn more from your losses, than from your gains.

What the world calls failure, I call learning.

Unfortunately, it is human nature for us to only learn and grow from a place of emptiness. It's hard to learn when we are winning and on top of the world.

I've learned from life experiences. If you go through certain things, you're able to pull from them.

You learn as much from failure as from success, Dad always says. Though no one admires you for it.

One learns more from defeat than from victory.

I strongly believe that whenever there's failure or you feel like you've failed, it's only just the beginning, and you can only learn from it.

I was lucky in that I had a mother that was full of this colloquial wisdom and she used to say to me 'You know, failure is not the opposite of success, it's the stepping stone to success. There is nobody who has not failed along the way.' So I think its very important for young women, especially as they are starting in life, to recognize that because otherwise, they only see people's success. So, when I speak, I speak of my failures.

Tonight is not a setback. It's just a learning experience.

Every time you fail, you learn more.

With every mistake, we must surely be learning.

I've seen some of my favorite actors give bad performances, and I have to tell myself that failure is a part of success.

Facing difficulties is inevitable. Learning from them is optional.

If you learn from a loss you have not lost.

You learn the most from life's hardest knocks.

To me, you go through things like that and you learn from it. You add it on to your life, to try to make your life better. Instead of dogging people, learn something from it. And keep stepping.

We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

All life battles teach us something, even those we lose

I find quite as much material for a lecture in those points wherein I have failed, as in those wherein I have been moderately successful.

Every pain is a lesson.

From success, you learn absolutely nothing. From failure and setbacks conclusions can be drawn. That goes for your private life as well as your career.

That’s what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we’ve changed because of it, and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way is winning.

We seem to gain wisdom more readily through our failures than through our successes. We always think of failure as the antithesis of success, but it isn't. Success often lies just the other side of failure.

Suffering is a good teacher. It keeps you in its grip until you've learned your lesson.