Accepting Failure Quotes
- The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing. – Henry Ford
- Failure is success if we learn from it. – Malcolm Forbes
- I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. – Thomas A. Edison
- Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. – Winston Churchill
- Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit. – Napoleon Hill
- Failure is so important. We speak about success all the time. It is the ability to resist failure or use failure that often leads to greater success. I’ve met people who don’t want to try for fear of failing. – J.K. Rowling
- I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I’ve been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. – Michael Jordan
- When we give ourselves permission to fail, we, at the same time, give ourselves permission to excel. – Eloise Ristad
- There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from failure. – Colin Powell
- Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. – Truman Capote
- I think you have to try and fail, because failure gets you closer to what you’re good at. – Louis C.K.
- Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure. – George Eliot
- You have to be able to accept failure to get better. – Lebron James
- Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out. – Benjamin Franklin
- The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. – Elbert Hubbard.
- A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. – Albert Einstein
- Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you’re not innovating enough. – Elon Musk
- Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. – Winston Churchill
- If you learn from defeat, you haven’t really lost.
- “Failure isn’t fatal, but failure to change might be.
- We’re born with success. It is only others who point out our failures, and what they attribute to us as failure.” – Whoopi Goldberg
- “Don’t be afraid of solitary journeys. Being responsible for your successes and failures makes you stronger.” – Priyanka Chopra,
- Failure is so important. We speak about success all the time. It is the ability to resist failure or use failure that often leads to greater success. I’ve met people who don’t want to try for fear of failing.” – J.K. Rowling
- “You have just one life to live. It is yours. Own it, claim it, live it, do the best you can with it.” – Hillary Clinton,
- American politician, diplomat, lawyer “Don’t sabotage your own greatness by succumbing to failure.” – Terry McMillan
- “Failure isn’t fatal, but failure to change might be” – John Wooden
- “Everything you want is on the other side of fear.” – Jack Canfield
- “Success is most often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.” – Coco Chanel
- “Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” – Robert F. Kennedy
- “The phoenix must burn to emerge.” – Janet Fitch
- “If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original.” – Ken Robinson
- “Giving up is the only sure way to fail.” – Gena Showalter
- “If you don’t try at anything, you can’t fail… it takes back bone to lead the life you want” – Richard Yates
- “Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.” – Denis Waitley
- “When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important.” – Ellen DeGeneres
- “It’s failure that gives you the proper perspective on success.” – Ellen DeGeneres
- “There is no failure except in no longer trying.” – Chris Bradford
- “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas A. Edison
Accepting Criticism Quotes
- “Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.” – Aristotle
“When virtues are pointed out first, flaws seem less insurmountable.” – Judith Martin
“The pleasure of criticizing takes away from us the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things.” – Jean de La Bruyère
“You can’t let praise or criticism get to you. It’s a weakness to get caught up in either one.” – John Wooden
- “Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting.” – Emmet Fox
- “Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “Remember: when people tell you something’s wrong or doesn’t work for them, they are almost always right. When they tell you exactly what they think is wrong and how to fix it, they are almost always wrong.” – Neil Gaiman
- “The trouble with most of us is that we’d rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.” – Norman Vincent Peale
“When we judge or criticize another person, it says nothing about that person; it merely says something about our own need to be critical.” – Unknown
- “It is much more valuable to look for the strength in others. You can gain nothing by criticizing their imperfections.” – Daisaku Ikeda
- If we judge ourselves only by our aspirations and everyone else only their conduct we shall soon reach a very false conclusion.” – Calvin Coolidge
- “I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.” – Charles Schwab
- “I criticize by creation, not by finding fault.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero
- “Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Don’t criticize what you don’t understand, son. You never walked in that man’s shoes.” – Elvis Presley
- “Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man’s growth without destroying his roots.” – Frank A. Clark
- “People tend to criticize their spouse most loudly in the area where they themselves have the deepest emotional need.” – Gary Chapman
- “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.
- “Before you go and criticize the younger generation, just remember who raised them.” – Unknown
- “Who do you spend time with? Criticizers or encouragers? Surround yourself with those who believe in you. Your life is too important for anything less.” – Steve Goodier
- “Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill
- Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
- “That was excellently observed’, say I, when I read a passage in an author, where his opinion agrees with mine. When we differ, there I pronounce him to be mistaken.” – Jonathan Swift
- “Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.” – William Arthur Ward
- Don’t be distracted by criticism. Remember, the only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite out of you.” – Zig Ziglar
- “If we judge ourselves only by our aspirations and everyone else only by their conduct, we shall soon reach a very false conclusion.” – Calvin Coolidge
“The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.” – Elbert Hubbard
He has a right to criticize who has a heart to help.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “You can’t let praise or criticisms get to you. It’s a weakness to get caught up in either one.” – John Wooden
- “When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.” – Plato
- “Most people have been brainwashed into believing that their job is to copyedit the world, not to design it.” – Seth Godin
- “Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me, and I may be forced to love you.” – Norman Vincent Peale
- “A creative life cannot be sustained by approval any more than it can be destroyed by criticism.” – Will Self
- “It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man’s oration–nay, it is very easy; but to produce a better in its place is a work extremely troublesome.” – Plutarch
- “Blame is safer than praise.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Don’t let compliments get to your head and don’t let criticism get to your heart.” – Lysa TerKeurst
- “Those of us who shout the loudest about Americanism are all too frequently those who…ignore some of the basic principles of Americanism–the right to criticize, the right to hold unpopular beliefs, the right to protest, the right of independent thought.” – Margaret Chase Smith
- “Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.” – E. M. Forster
- “Analyses of others are actually expressions of our own needs and values.” – Marshall Rosenberg
