How Your Failures Make You Better

Do you want to do better in life? If your answer is yes, then you might be surprised to find out that your failures are a key factor in making you better. You might think that success is what proves your life is better, but you can’t reach success without failure.

Failure teaches you what you need to learn, lessens your fears, shows you what you are capable of, and improves your resilience. Failure makes you work harder so you can achieve more in life. Psychologists and business leaders state that your failures make you better so you can reach success.

Your Failures Help You Learn

Imagine finishing school, starting an entry-level job, and then running that department after just a few days. You wouldn’t do a very good job running the department because there would be so many things you haven’t learned about the company itself, how it operates, and about being the manager. That’s why companies have an orientation period and training. These steps allow you to learn, make mistakes, and grow into a better position.

New employees often make mistakes when they start a job. They may not recognize an important client or fill out their paperwork incorrectly. These failures allow them to learn. If you bypass these learning opportunities, your failure as the new manager maybe even worse. An important client might forgive a new employee for not knowing who they are, but they would expect a manager to recognize them.

When a new employee who doesn’t complete their paperwork, it generally only affects them. When a manager does those things, other employees might not get the work schedule, or the entire department might not get paid. Failures early in your career help you learn and grow so you can accept more responsibility.

Your Failures Help Lessen Your Fears

While some people fear failure, your failures actually help lessen your fears. People often imagine the worst possible scenario if they fail. But failure shows you that the worst you can imagine usually doesn’t happen. Instead, failure is an opportunity to learn and grow and do better the next time.

Think back to the example of getting an entry-level job. If you fear failure, you may never invest in yourself enough to receive a promotion. You’ll steer away from opportunities for advancement because you fear not being able to do the additional work or being a good manager. But if you try and fail, you learn what you need to do to succeed. You no longer fear failure because you know how to overcome it.

Your Failures Show You What You Are Capable of Doing

Part of lessening your fears is knowing what you are capable of doing. When you learn from your failures, you also learn what you are capable of doing to overcome life’s challenges and obstacles. Without your failures, you don’t determine what you can do to succeed or how capable you are at doing what needs to be done.

Because your failures lessen your fears, you will be willing to try new and more things. The failures you do have will motivate you to try harder, do more, and be better. You won’t know what you are capable of until you try, and you won’t know how much you can do until you fail and have to try harder.

Your Failure Improves Your Resilience

Your failures improve your resilience by teaching you not to give up. Instead of fearing failure or not knowing what to do, your failures teach you that you can overcome obstacles in life and succeed. Failure shows you that you can make yourself better instead of assuming you aren’t capable of success.

Without your failures, you won’t develop the skills needed to reach for more in life. Being better involves personal growth, and your failures provide opportunities to learn, grow, and change. When you fail, your ability to use your failure to improve your resilience increases as you find ways to overcome the challenges you face.

Your failures can make you better by helping you learn in all areas of your life. Life can be difficult, with obstacles and challenges along the way. Without failures, you won’t learn how to succeed when life is difficult.

40 Inspirational Quotes: Failure

“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” ― Robert F. Kennedy

“We are all failures – at least the best of us are.” – J.M. Barrie

“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 S. Churchill

“It’s not how far you fall, but how high you bounce that counts.” – Zig Ziglar

“Just because you fail once doesn’t mean you’re gonna fail at everything.”― Marilyn Monroe

“If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.”― H.G. Wells

“When we give ourselves permission to fail, we, at the same time, give ourselves permission to excel.” – Eloise Ristad

“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“What is the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable?” -John Green

“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”― Truman Capote

“Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”― Winston S. Churchill

“Winners are not afraid of losing. But losers are. Failure is part of the process of success. People who avoid failure also avoid success.” – Robert T. Kiyosaki

“Everything you want is on the other side of fear.” – Jack Canfield

“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”― Theodore Roosevelt

“I didn’t fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.”― Benjamin Franklin

“The phoenix must burn to emerge.” – Janet Fitch

“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

“A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions–as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.”― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Success is most often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.”― Coco Chanel, Believing in Ourselves: The Wisdom of Women

“Giving up is the only sure way to fail.” – Gena Showalter

“Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.” – Lance Armstrong

“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

“Most great people have achieved their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.” – Napoleon Hill

“Failure is another stepping stone to greatness.”-Oprah Winfrey

“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.” – Samuel Beckett

“You always pass failure on your way to success.” – Mickey Rooney

“Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.” – Zig Ziglar

“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.” – Arianna Huffington

“Mistakes are the portals of discovery.” – James Joyce

“Accepting your failure without losing your faith is true bravery” – Nitin Namdeo

“A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.” – Albert Einstein