Bob Greene Quotes

I do take defeats well. However, I don't just leave them at that. I take time to analyze why I was defeated and make sure I don't make the same mistakes again. I think it is important to learn from one's mistakes.

Successes teach you nothing. Failures teach you everything. Making mistakes is the most important thing you can do.

I learn from my mistakes. It’s a very painful way to learn, but without pain, the old saying is, there’s no gain.

Just as we may learn from our successes (how to do it) so also can we learn from our mistakes (how not to do it). It just isn't in the cards that anybody should get by forever without making mistakes and perhaps sometimes making costly ones.

You learn from the mistakes you make and from the mistakes other people make. The truth is, you don't learn from success; you learn from failure.

So I learned that the people who make the most of the process of encountering reality, especially the painful obstacles, learn the most and get what they want faster than people who do not. ... In short, I learned that being totally truthful, especially about mistakes and weaknesses, led to a rapid rate of improvement and movement toward what I wanted.

Every time is a learning experience, and you pick up a little bit, and you learn things and try not to repeat them the next time.

One of these days, I'm going to stop learning through my errors.

Knowing my mistakes and being able to go back to fix them - that helps me out a lot.

You make mistakes that you want to learn from, that you don't want to happen again, and that's what I try to do.

Perfectionist is sometimes the wrong word... It means like you're never satisfied, or you're upset by every single failure - any type of failure. And so for me, I don't look at failure as necessarily a bad thing as long as I'm able to learn from it and take something from it, so that next time I'm in that situation I know how to succeed.

As soon as error is corrected, it is important that the error be forgotten and only the successful attempts be remembered. Errors, mistakes, and humiliations are all necessary steps in the learning process. Once they have served their purpose, they should be forgotten. If we constantly dwell upon the errors, then the error or failure becomes the goal.

You will only fail to learn if you do not learn from failing.

We all mess up. It's what we learn from our mistakes that matters.

Mistakes don't have to define us. They're how we learn and grow. They show us who and what we don't want to be. It's why they're mistakes.

Don't waste a good mistake, learn from it.

You are human, you will make mistakes, and it's one of the most beautiful things about being human, but you must learn from your mistakes, otherwise your life will have a lot of unnecessary pain.

To improve, we must watch ourselves fail, and learn from our mistakes.

Those who profit from adversity possess a spirit of humility and are therefore inclined to make the necessary changes needed to learn from their mistakes, failures, and losses. ... When we are focused too much on ourselves, we lose perspective. Humility allows us to regain perspective and see the big picture. ... Humility allows us to let go of perfection and keep trying.

People learn from failure or from lack of success.

We are able to learn from a failure, but perhaps not much from a success!

Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it / immediately.

You must never feel badly about making mistakes ... as long as you take the trouble to learn from them. For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons.

A mistake is valuable if you do four things with it: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it

Learn from the negative as well as the positive, from the failures as well as the successes.