John C. Maxwell Quotes

You can never learn less; you can only learn more. The reason I know so much is because I have made so many mistakes.

If a man didn't make mistakes he'd own the world in a month.But if he didn't profit by his mistakes he wouldn't own a blessed thing.

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.

Some of us learn from other people’s mistakes and the rest of us have to be other people.

Making mistakes and learning from them is crucial to winning.

Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.

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.

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.

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

You learn more from your setbacks than from your successes.

I think the greatest mistakes have been my greatest lessons.

Failure teaches you a lot more than success.

The wise are not wise because they make no mistakes. They are wise because they correct their mistakes as soon as they recognize them.

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

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.

Generally speaking, there are two kinds of learning: experience, which is gained from your own mistakes, and wisdom, which is learned from the mistakes of others.

All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.

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.

You would not have the wisdom and knowledge you now possess were it not for the setbacks you have faced, the mistakes you have made and the suffering you have endured.

Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.

I make plenty of mistakes and I'll make plenty more mistakes, too. That's part of the game. You've just got to make sure that the right things overcome the wrong ones.

We can learn from mistakes of others, whether they're kings or our parents. When we do learn those lessons, we're better equipped to make our own dreams come true.

Even bad results teach you something, and you can learn your lessons and get better.

I think there are a number of things that you can do to encourage your kids' dreams, but I do believe in speaking by experience of having a lot of help along the way, stumbling in the past. We've all stumbled, and we certainly all deserve to get up and walk again.

You either learn from your experiences or go back and do the same thing, and I learned from my experiences.