Failures Quotes - Page 4

I think and think for months for years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

Albert Einstein

Take chances make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.

Mary Tyler Moore

Take risks. You can't fall off the bottom.

Barbara Proctor

When it goes wrong you feel like cutting your throat but you go on. You don't let anything get you down so much that it beats you or stops you.

Life is a series of relapses and recoveries.

We learn courageous action by going forward whenever fear urges us back. A little boy was asked how he learned to skate. "By getting up every time I fell down " he answered.

If I had to live my life over again I'd dare to make more mistakes next time.

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Herbert Kaufman

Entrepreneurs average 3.8 failures before final success. What sets the successful ones apart is their amazing persistence. There are a lot of people out there with good and marketable ideas but pure entrepreneurial types almost never accept defeat.

He who is shipwrecked twice is foolish to blame the sea.

Publilius Syrus

He who is shipwrecked the second time cannot lay the blame on Neptune.

English Proverb

He that's cheated twice by the same man is an accomplice with the cheater.

If you would not have affliction visit you twice listen at once to what it teaches.

You can beat the Bear once but never the same way twice.

Any man can make mistakes but only an idiot persists in his error.

Cicero

The road to wisdom? Well it's plain and simple to express: Err and err and err again. But less and less and less.

Piet Hein

I made a mistake today I made a mistake yesterday. I think it's ... very important to ignore the negative.

The biggest quality in successful people I think is an impatience with negative thinking. ... How many opportunities come along? If you wait for the right one that's wrong because it may never be right and what have you got to lose? Even if it's a disaster you've tried you've learned something you've had an adventure. And that doesn't mean you can't do it again.

A peacefulness follows any decision even the wrong one.

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.

Rosalynn Carter

When we can begin to take our failures non-seriously it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

Katherine Mansfield

If I lose I'll walk away and never feel bad.... Because I did all I could there was nothing more to do.

A man must learn to forgive himself.

Arthur Davison Ficke

You must accept that you might fail then if you do your best and still don't win at least you can be satisfied that you've tried.

Rosalynn Carter

Who would not rather trust and be deceived?

Forget mistakes. Forget failure. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day.

There is a way to look at the past. Don't hide from it. It will not catch you if you don't repeat it.

Forget your mistakes but remember what they taught you.

Dorothy Galyean

To stumble twice against the same stone is a proverbial disgrace.

Cicero

I've arrived at this outermost edge of my life by my own actions. Where I am is thoroughly unacceptable. Therefore I must stop doing what I have been doing.

Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures.

Bernard M. Baruch

I believe we are solely responsible for our choices and we have to accept the consequences of every deed word and thought throughout our lifetime.

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He does not say "My men were beaten " he says "I was beaten."

Antoine De Saint Exupery

The most considerable difference I note among men is not in their readiness to fall into error but in their readiness to acknowledge these inevitable lapses.

Thomas Henry Huxley

It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes. It takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

Whenever at an accusation blind rage burns up within us the reason is that some arrow has pierced the joints of our harness. Behind our shining armour of righteous indignation lurks a convicted and only half-repentant sinner ... [and] we may be almost sure some sharp and bitter grain of truth lurks within it and the wound is best probed.

The fault dear Brutus is not in our stars but in ourselves.

William Shakespeare

There's folks 'ud stand on their heads and then say the fault was i' their boots.

Admitting error clears the score and proves you wiser than before.

Arthur Guiterman

Mistakes fail in their mission of helping the person who blames them on the other fellow.

Henry S. Haskins

I have known men who could see through the motivations of others with the skill of a clairvoyant only to prove blind to their own mistakes. I have been one of those men.

Bernard M. Baruch

I have made mistakes but I have never made the mistake of claiming that I never made one.

James Gordon Bennett

The man who can own up to his error is greater than he who merely knows how to avoid making it.

Cardinal de Retz

A man may fall many times but he won't be a failure until he says that someone pushed him.

Elmer G. Letterman

Do not be afraid of mistakes providing you do not make the same one twice.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Fool me once shame on you fool me twice shame on me.

Chinese Proverb

There is no reason to repeat bad history.

Eleanor Holmes Norton

I try to extract something positive from [every] situation even if it's just learning not to make the same mistake twice.

Claudia Schiffer

Our mistakes won't irreparably damage our lives unless we let them.

James E. Sweeney

A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Johann von Goethe

Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.

No man ever progressed to greatness and goodness but through great mistakes.

Frederick W. Robertson

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood who strives valiantly who errs and comes short again and again who knows the great enthusiasms the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy cause who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst if he fails at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

Theodore Roosevelt

The errors of great men are venerable because they are more fruitful than the truths of little men.

Friedrich Nietzsche

There is something distinguished about even his failures they sink not trivially but with a certain air of majesty like a great ship its flags flying full of holes.

George Jean Nathan

If all else fails immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.

John Kenneth Galbraith

In a great mistake.

Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

If you have made mistakes even serious mistakes there is always another chance for you.

Life like war is a series of mistakes and he is best who wins the most splendid victories by the retrieval of mistakes.

Frederick W. Robertson

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