Abraham Lincoln Quotes

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.

It's failure, really, that you grow by, although nobody likes to experience it.

Would rather learn from failures I'm proud of than take pride in success I don't believe in.

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.

Recognize that there will be failures, and acknowledge that there will be obstacles. But you will learn from your mistakes and the mistakes of others, for there is very little learning in success.

There is a lot of difference between failure and defeat. Failure is when you are defeated and neither learn nor contribute anything.

Success is a poor teacher

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

The more successful you are, the more mistakes you will make. People who don't do anything, don't make mistakes.

If you learn from a loss you have not lost.

Defeat has its lessons as well as victory.

As athletes, we're defined by what we've accomplished. Those are what most people remember and what you get paid for. But I learned more from my failures than from all of my successes put together - failures as an athlete and as a person.

It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.

Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble.

Treat failure as a lesson on how not to approach achieving a goal, and then use that learning to improve your chances of success when you try again. Failure is only the end if you decide to stop.

You're never wasting your time as long as you learn from every single thing you do, whether you feel like those attempts are successful or not.

I've made game-winners, I've missed game-winners. I've pitched shutouts, and I've given up 10 runs. You just deal with the experiences and learn how to get over the bad outings and learn from them, so they don't occur time and time again. You take what you did right from the good games and turn those into, 'How do I repeat that success?'

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

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

You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.

I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it

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

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.

Mistakes in life teach you how to succeed because you want to try again and do it better.

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