Tavis Smiley Quotes

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

What the world calls failure, I call learning.

The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose.

This extends to all things, but you only learn it by losing a few times.

We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

Successful people fail often, and, worth noting, learn more from that failure than everyone else.

You learn as much from failure as from success, Dad always says. Though no one admires you for it.

Too late, I found you can't wait to become perfect, you got to go out and fall down and get up with everybody else.

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.

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.

I have failed so much, but I have learned so much more in life from my failures than my successes.

Some people learn to lose. Others lose and learn.

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.

Every time you fail, you learn more.

Success teaches us nothing; only failure teaches.

You have to be able to accept failure to get better.

Keep your eyes open. Make mistakes - because you will anyway - and remember that small stuff stinks but that it's also essential.

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

You can always learn when you lose.

From my three loses in my entire career I've always learned from them and came back stronger.

Failure teaches you a lot more than success.

You always learn a lot more when you lose.

The best thing we can do with rejection is to make it a learning experience - rejection is a great teacher.

What if the Secret to Success is Failure?.

We try, and we try, and we fail; and then we go deeper.