Failures Quotes - Page 5

A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

Confucius

The great virtue of man lies in his ability to correct his mistakes and to continually make a new man of himself.

It is only error in judgement to make a mistake but it shows infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.

Christian Bovee

It is human to err but it is devilish to remain willfully in error.

Saint Augustine

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes but quickly to see how to make them good.

Peole do think that if they avoid the truth it might change to something better before they have to hear it.

We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until... we have stopped saying "It got lost " and say "I lost it."

Sydney J. Harris

Ah how steadily do they who are guilty shrink from reproof!

Amelia Jenks Bloomer

We all choke and the man who says he doesn't choke is lying like hell. We all leak oil.

He who has never failed somewhere that man cannot be great.

Herman Melville

He is always right who suspects that he makes mistakes.

Spanish Proverb

The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.

Bishop WC. Magee

A good marksman may miss.

He that has much to do will do something wrong.

For a just man falleth seven times and riseth up again.

Bible

To make no mistake is not in the power of man but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

Plutarch

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection.

William Faulkner

The fellow who never makes a mistake takes his orders from one who does.

Herbert B. Prochnow

Accept that all of us can be hurt that all of us can - and surely will at times - fail. Other vulnerabilities like being embarrassed or risking love can be terrifying too. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst take the risk.

Dr. Joyce Brothers

The greatest general is he who makes the fewest mistakes.

Napoléon Bonaparte

War is a series of catastrophes that results in victory.

Georges Clémenceau

Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.

Anonymous

A man finds he has been wrong at every stage of his career only to deduce the astonishing conclusion that he is at last entirely right.

Robert Louis Stevenson

One loss is good for the soul. Too many losses are not good for the coach.

In all science error precedes the truth and it is better it should go first than last.

In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Virtually nothing comes out right the first time. Failures repeated failures are finger posts on the road to achievement. The only time you don't want to fail is the last time you try something.... One fails forward toward success.

Charles F. Kettering

To err is human to forgive divine.

Imagine a congress of eminent celebrities such as More Bacon Grotius Pascal Cromwell Bossuet Montesquieu Jefferson Napoleon Pitt etc. They would be an Encyclopedia of Errors.

Flops are a part of life's menu and Eve never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.

Rosalind Russell

Every man's got to figure to get beat sometime.

Joe Louis

Who thinks it just to be judged by a single error?

Man errs as long as he struggles.

Johann von Goethe

Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Phyllis Therous

Be aware that young people have to be able to make their own mistakes and that times change.

The best brewer sometimes makes bad beer.

We must somehow get comfortable with the reality of periodic failure. ... Like a trip to the dentist the thought of occasional reverses may not make us tingle with joyful anticipation but then again it's not the end of the world.

The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.

Voltaire

All men are liable to error and most men are ... by passion or interest under temptation to it.

Show me a person who has never made a mistake and Ell show you somebody who has never achieved much.

He only is exempt from failures who makes no effort.

Richard Whately

Only he who does nothing makes no mistakes.

The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Life is not life unless you make mistakes.

Failing one time — or even several times — doesn’t make you a failure any more than losing one game makes you a loser.

Frank Sonnenberg

Every Nigerian must begin to raise their voice against our societal failures and call them as such at every juncture. In this way we could all bring about a modern, progressive and civilized society.

If I look closely, my failures are less about my inadequacies and more about the fact that I channel my abilities into the wrong places.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

My life changed the moment I stopped blaming others for my failures.

It is better to experience than to be told.

Lailah Gifty Akita

I am not ashamed of my failures. It is only a foot-stones for building my success.

Lailah Gifty Akita

It takes a lot of practices to get it right. The key is to keep practicing.

Lailah Gifty Akita

What is jealousy but a reflection of your own failures?

Michael Connelly

A true leader is responsible for his followers who have reposed their faith in his leadership. If an ordinary man fails, it is a personal failure. But when a leader fails, he shatters the entire ideologies, principles and morale of all those who followed him. The impact is much bigger and stakes are higher.

Consequences need not be the obstacles that I dread, but the direction that I need.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

For Commander Ripley Jones, it was becoming more and more troublesome. It had been said that nothing is infallible, Antares apparently being the proof. After hastily recalling all crew and leaving Spacedock 7 thirty hours ago, there had been nothing but problems. Breakdowns in the sensors and telemetry, system failures of a wide variety and finally – the Last Straw: a coupling seal in the stardrive engine failed. Fortunately the cut-out worked, or the whole of engineering would’ve disappeared in a flaming ball of anti-matter. Five crewmen were seriously injured as it was. Commander Smith, the Chief Entech, had the offending unit stripped down and under repair. They were currently on conversion drive - which could only propel them at sub-light speeds – and Ripley was currently in an elevator with a very pissed Captain Falconer.

Christina Engela

Never restart a journey and use the same road that failed you before.

Dennis E. Adonis

You can endure every hardship with hope.

Lailah Gifty Akita

If want to succeed, you must work to overcome the obstacles on your path.

Lailah Gifty Akita

I was thinking how complicated life is and how there are no simple roads or paths. We are a fabric of mistakes and hurts; a family tree of fumbled attempts, successes and failures.

Belinda Jeffrey

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