Elbert Hubbard Quotes

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

I wouldn't be where I am today without my mistakes. Particularly my mistakes. Exclusively my mistakes.

Failure's not a bad thing. It builds character. It makes you stronger.

I think the greatest mistakes have been my greatest lessons.

One of the most valuable lessons I learned...is that we all have to learn from our mistakes, and we learn from those mistakes a lot more than we learn from the things we succeeded in doing.

Defeat has its lessons as well as victory.

I've made every mistake - but mistakes are how you learn.

I've done well over time but made lots of mistakes, too. Learn from your mistakes.

I've been doing a lot of learning from mistakes, first and foremost, and building off that.

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.

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

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

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.

Win or lose, I always learn something.

It is only through failure and through experiment that we learn and grow.

My biggest mistake was my best lesson... you don't learn anything when everything is going perfectly.

When you fail by your own standards, it's a form of success.

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.

You know, be able to do something great in your life, you're gonna have to realize your failures. You're gonna have to embrace them and figure out how to overcome it.

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.

You learn your lessons from the mistakes you make, not the things you achieve.

But I look at failure as education. In that respect, I am so well-educated.

Don't be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.

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.

I think it's a great thing to have failed in life and then pulled yourself up by the boot straps and actually done something, because then you appreciate it more.