Jane Powell Quotes

Failure is not to be feared. It is from failure that most growth comes.

If you cannot fail, you cannot learn.

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.

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.

What the world calls failure, I call learning.

Failure: Is it a limitation? Bad timing? It's a lot of things. It's something you can't be afraid of, because you'll stop growing. The next step beyond failure could be your biggest success in life.

If you're having trouble succeeding, fail.

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.

You learn the most from life's hardest knocks.

You learn more from losing than winning. You learn how to keep going.

To a certain extent, I enjoy failure. It's part of the game. There's always room to grow; there's room to improve.

You fail, and then what? Life goes on. It's only when you risk failure that you discover things.

We try, and we try, and we fail; and then we go deeper.

We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

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

A failure isn't a failure if it prepares you for success tomorrow.

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.

99 percent of success is built on failure.

A setback is never a bad experience, just another one of life’s lessons.

Mistakes are the stepping stones to success.

I need people who look at adversity as a challenge and failure as a learning opportunity.

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.

I have always felt that although someone may defeat me, and I strike out in a ball game, the pitcher on the particular day was the best player. But I know when I see him again, I'm going to be ready for his curve ball. Failure is a part of success.

I've always felt that failure was a completely underrated experience.