Karen Joy Fowler Quotes

From success, you learn absolutely nothing. From failure and setbacks conclusions can be drawn. That goes for your private life as well as your career.

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.

We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

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.

Mistakes are the stepping stones to success.

What the world calls failure, I call learning.

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

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

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

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.

She thinks, I failed twice. If I failed twice I'm going to fail forever. No! That is not the law of life. If you failed twice that means you can learn. It's just a learning experience. It's an obstacle. An imaginary obstacle. She made it real. She made failing a journey of life... Instead do again and make a journey of your life.

If you're having trouble succeeding, fail.

Unfortunately, it is human nature for us to only learn and grow from a place of emptiness. It's hard to learn when we are winning and on top of the world.

It's failure, really, that you grow by, although nobody likes to experience it.

The biggest lesson I had in my life was failure.

For me, failure is not a bad thing because it teaches you how to succeed.

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

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

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.

Her failure was a useful preliminary to success.

Failure in life does not matter; the greatest misfortune is standing still.

You are fortunate if you have learned the difference between temporary defeat and failure, more fortunate still if you have learned the truth that the very seed of success is dormant in every defeat that you experience.

A setback is never a bad experience, just another one of life’s lessons.