Lynda Resnick Quotes

Defeat has its lessons as well as victory.

When you experience a failure as a leader, don't hide it - talk about it. Your missed opportunity will encourage others to take risks.

It's important to celebrate your failures as much as your successes. If you celebrate your failures really well, and if you get to the motto and say, 'Wow, I failed, I tried, I was wrong, I learned something,' then you realize you have no fear, and when your fear goes away, you can move the world.

It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

You can be discouraged by failure, or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes, make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success - on the far side of failure.

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.

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

I love to talk to children about making mistakes. It's important that I tell them about how I don't get it right the first time. We live in such a perfectionist society, and they see so many finished products and polished performances.

Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.

You can learn little from victory. You can learn everything from defeat.

We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.

I disagree with people who think you learn more from getting beat up than you do from winning.

You shouldn't be afraid of failure - when something fails, you think, 'What did I learn from that experience? I can do better next time.' Then kill that project and move on to the next. Don't get disappointed.

Of course it's important to make mistakes, as long as you grow from them.

If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.

The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures.

People love to hear the mistakes you've made.

I'm very good at making mistakes, so I realized that I should embrace mistakes and learn from them.

Too often we just look at these glistening successes. Behind them in many, many cases is failure along the way, and that doesn't get put into the Wikipedia story or the bio. Yet those failures teach you every bit as much as the successes.

The only real failure in life is one not learned from.

Failures are infinitely more instructive than successes.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.