Quotes about Accepting Failure

What people often ask me is, 'What are the ingredients of Silicon Valley?' While the answer to that is complex, some of the ingredients I talk about are celebrating entrepreneurship, accepting failure, and embracing a mobile and diverse workforce. Votes: 4

Optimism can keep a fool from accepting failure. Votes: 3

Success is the process of not accepting failure. Votes: 3

I guess just accepting failure is the thing. I don't really look at it as a failure. I look at them as learning lessons and things you grow from but not really a failure, because that's life. Votes: 3

Failure is a word that I simply don't accept. Votes: 2

You can't have any successes unless you can accept failure. Votes: 2

You have to be able to accept failure to get better. Votes: 2

Once you can accept failure, you can have fun and success. Votes: 2

What America does best is produce the ability to accept failure. Votes: 2

I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying. Votes: 2

Low standards are a tactic that takes pressure off teachers' unions by accepting mediocrity and failure for kids. Votes: 2

In the future, financial firms of any type whose failure would pose a systemic risk must accept especially close regulatory scrutiny of their risk-taking. Votes: 2

You accept failure as a possible outcome of some of the experiments. If you don't get failures, you're not pushing hard enough on the objectives. Votes: 2

If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk. Votes: 2

Ken Lay has, does and will continue to accept responsibility for the fall of Enron. He was the man at the controls. But failure is not a crime. Votes: 2

An open-minded and diverse population that readily shares information, encourages experimentation, accepts failure and dispenses with formality and hierarchy is what makes Silicon Valley the successful hub that it is. Votes: 2

The sooner you accept the fact that you will have both successes and failures, the easier it will be to get your business and personal life headed in the right direction. Votes: 2

We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes - understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success. Votes: 2

Failure is enriching. It's also important to accept that you'll make mistakes - it's how you build your expertise. The trick is to learn a positive lesson from all of life's negative moments. Votes: 2

The key to accepting responsibility for your life is to accept the fact that your choices, every one of them, are leading you inexorably to either success or failure, however you define those terms. Votes: 2

Learning to accept failure on multiple levels is, to my way of thinking, the key to become a world-class therapist. But that means humility, and setting your ego aside, while you develop superb new technical skills. Votes: 2

I went to a motivational training course once, a course of self-discovery, and I found out after a week that my fear - it was not a fear of not being accepted - was a very violent fear of failure. Votes: 2

I understand the harsh feelings and sentiments from my opponents and their supporters because I myself have been defeated twice in my political life in the past and I understand very well it is hard to accept your own failure. Votes: 2

Just once it might be instructive to pretend you're accepting an award for failure, just to see who you would thank. Votes: 0