Jacques-Louis David Quotes

You can learn a line from a win and a book from a defeat.

I find quite as much material for a lecture in those points wherein I have failed, as in those wherein I have been moderately successful.

If you got it, ask yourself why and try to repeat the action. If you failed, ask yourself why and try to learn from the experience.

The problem is not what we are doing badly, it is because we are not doing things well.

A failure is like fertilizer; it stinks to be sure, but it makes things grow faster in the future.

I wouldn't be where I am now if I didn't fail ... a lot. The good, the bad, it's all part of the success equation.

No matter what one does, regardless of failure or success, the experience is a form of success in itself.

It's good to fail now and again - you learn a lot more out of failure than you do out of success.

Small successes are still successes; great failures are still failures.

He who has failed three times sets up as an instructor.

Mistakes are often the best teachers.

More times than not, it's a failed endeavor. You will fail more times than you succeed. But I think you need those failed endeavors.

Every great improvement has come after repeated failures. Virtually nothing comes out right the first time. Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.

I think we impress people by our success, but I think we impact them by our failures.

If you want to have a lot of success, you need to have a lot of failure

See the opportunity in the misstep.

I was lucky in that I had a mother that was full of this colloquial wisdom and she used to say to me 'You know, failure is not the opposite of success, it's the stepping stone to success. There is nobody who has not failed along the way.' So I think its very important for young women, especially as they are starting in life, to recognize that because otherwise, they only see people's success. So, when I speak, I speak of my failures.

Mistakes are lessons that you need to learn!

If there wasn't any competition, I'd be very worried, because it would mean we were not doing very well.

You’ll fail at some things, that’s a learning experience that you need so that you can take that on to the next experience... What you learn from those challenges and those failures are what will get you past the next ones... I was the pretty consistent bull and the cheerleader on eBay actually.

What the world calls failure, I call learning.

Things hardly ever work on the first try. We'll make another, a better one.

Failure is just another way to learn how to do something right.

Making mistakes and learning from them is crucial to winning.

I have been successful probably because I have always realized that I knew nothing about writing and have merely tried to tell an interesting story entertainingly.