failure reflection Quotes

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

A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.

Don't try to fix the students, fix ourselves first. The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior. When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.

You need to learn what people have done, but you need to learn where they have failed... Usually when they fail it is in the execution.

In failure, children learn how to struggle with adversity and how to confront fear. By reflecting on failure, children begin to see how to correct themselves and then try again with better results.

When people succeed they party, when people fail they ponder.

Moralists love to discourse on the hollowness of success; about the hollowness of failure they are silent.

It's too bad failures don't give seminars. Wouldn't that be valuable? If you meet a guy who has messed up his life for forty years, you've just got to say, 'John, if I bring my journal and promise to take good notes, would you spend a day with me?'

A big part of my job is to remember failure, and reboot failure, when the timing is right.

The greatest mistake of my life was obtaining a military education.

If you can't come clean and tell investors how and why you failed, that raises a red flag. They need to see that you learned from it and came back stronger.