H. L. Mencken Quotes

Failure is an indispensable prerequisite of success. It is how you learn the lessons you need.

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.

Failures teach you more, there's always something fundamental about them.

Nothing in this world is a gift. Whatever must be learned must be learned the hard way.

There's nothing wrong with failing if you learn from it, and I've failed out here plenty.

Setbacks are just learning experiences.

In all failures, the beginning is certainly the half of the whole.

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

What people call success is only preparation for the next failure.

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

Each failure to sell will increase your chances for success at your next attempt.

99 percent of success is built on failure.

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.

If you want to succeed, double your failure rate.

Perhaps the most important thing I could say is to never be thrown by failure and mistakes. Each and everything that happens, even if it was not what you hoped would happen, is a valuable, life-learning tool. And you will only achieve success if you know how to learn from your failures and mistakes. It’s vital.

Failure means you've now learned another valuable lesson that pushes you one step closer to success.

People learn from failure or from lack of success.

Mistakes are the stepping stones to success.

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.

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.

Fail early, fail often, but always fail forward.

You learn more from your losses, than from your gains.

I strongly believe that whenever there's failure or you feel like you've failed, it's only just the beginning, and you can only learn from it.

What the world calls failure, I call learning.

Every time you fail, you learn more.