Failures Quotes - Page 2

Through failure we learn a lesson in humility which is probably needed painful though it is.

Bill W.

A failure is a man who has blundered but is not able to cash in the experience.

Like success failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude failure is a learning experience a rung on the ladder a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.

W Clement Stone

When you make a mistake don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.

From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.

Publilius Syrus

Learn from the mistakes of others - you can't live long enough to make them all yourself.

The entire history of science is a progression of exploded fallacies.

Ayn Rand

Don't use the conduct of a fool as a precedent.

Talmud

Wise men learn by other men's mistakes fools by their own.

Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.

Publilius Syrus

What is defeat? Nothing but education nothing but the first step to something better.

Wendell Phillips

Let us not be needlessly bitter certain failures are sometimes fruitful.

If I win several tournaments in a row I get so confident I'm in a cloud. A loss gets me eager again.

Chris Evert Lloyd

There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you.

Failure is only an opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Disappointments are to the soul what the thunder-storm is to the air.

J. C. F. von Schiller

The wisest person is not the one who has the fewest failures but the one who turns failures to best account.

Richard R. Grant

One of the advantages of defeat in life - maybe the main advantage - is that it provides an excuse for change. Defeat... invariably leads to new adventures.

Failure is God's own tool for carving some of the finest outlines in the character of his children.

I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down.

Allen H. Neuharth

From their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

Plutarch

Having harvested all the knowledge and wisdom we can from our mistakes and failures we should put them behind us and go ahead.

I think success has no rules but you can learn a great deal from failure.

Jean Kerr

Failure is just another way to learn how to do something right.

Marian Wright Edelman

There are no mistakes no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from.

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

We will be victorious if we have not forgotten how to learn.

It is the true nature of mankind to learn from mistakes not from example.

The psychotherapist learns little or nothing from his successes. They mainly confirm him in his mistakes while his failures on the other hand are priceless experiences in that they not only open up the way to a deeper truth but force him to change his views and methods.

Carl Jung

Failure ... is in a sense the highway to success inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterward carefully avoid.

We need to teach a highly educated person that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently for failing is one of the greatest arts of the world.

Charles F. Kettering

The man who has done his level best and who is conscious that he has done his best is a success even though the world may write him down a failure.

When I have listened to my mistakes I have grown.

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

It is defeat that turns bone to flint it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle it is defeat that makes men invincible. Do not then be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.

Henry Ward Beecher

They fail and they alone who have not striven.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

You may be disappointed if you fail but you are doomed if you don't try.

Failure is something made only by those who fail to dare not by those who dare to fail.

You don't always win your battles but it's good to know you fought.

Marjorie Holmes

Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Good judgment comes from experience and experience comes from poor judgment.

Anonymous

Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Georges Carpentier

Mistakes and errors are the discipline through which we advance.

William Ellery Channing

A stumble may prevent a fall.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

Besides the practical knowledge which defeat offers there are important personality profits to be taken. Defeat strips away false values and makes you realize what you really want. It stops you from chasing butterflies and puts you to work digging gold.

William M. Marston

No experiment is ever a complete failure. It can always be used as a bad example.

Failure is the foundation of success and the means by which it is achieved.

Lao Tzu

There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.

Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God.

Charles Horton Cooley

It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands new undertakings and new forms of expression.

A mistake is not a failure but evidence that someone tried to do something.

Anonymous

Man must strive and in striving he must err.

Johann von Goethe

The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.

Dr. Joyce Brothers

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

The sight of a cage is only frightening to the bird that has once been caught.

Your success depends on your ability to dream and follow through on those dreams.

Keep trying. Take care of the small circle around you. When you have succeeded with them then move outwards one small step at a time.

It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes.

Flannery O'Connor

There might be false starts and do-overs. You are entitled to experiment before you find your calling.

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