Mistakes Quotes - Page 2

People fail forward to success.

Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blossom in time and bear fruit throughout eternity.

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

The causes of mistakes are "I didn't know" "I didn't think" and "I didn't care."

Henry H. Buckley

Failures are divided into two classes: those who thought and never did and those who did and never thought.

John Charles Salak

A failure establishes only this that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

Christian Bovee

Self-distrust is the cause of most of our failures. They are the weakest however strong who have no faith in themselves or their own powers.

Christian Bovee

Defeat is a thing of weariness of incoherence of boredom.

Antoine De Saint Exupery

Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.

Brendan Francis

We fail more often by timidity than by over-daring.

Losers have tons of variety. Champions take pride in just learning to hit the same old boring winners.

Lack of will power has caused more failures than lack of intelligence or ability.

Flower A. Newhouse

The word fate ... is the refuge of every self-confessed failure.

Half the failures in life come from pulling one's horse in when he is leaping.

Disappointment is the nurse of wisdom.

Sir Boyle Roche

What can any of us do with his talent but try to develop his vision so that through frequent failures we may learn better what we have missed in the past.

William Carlos Williams

When a man is pushed tormented defeated he has a chance to learn something he has been put on his wits on his manhood he has gained the facts learned his ignorance is cured of the insanity of conceit has got moderation and real skill.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves no matter how unpleasant are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn whatever steps we take they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go.

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.

Failure is a school in which the truth always grows strong.

Henry Ward Beecher

The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose.

It's good to fail now and again - you learn a lot more out of failure than you do out of success.

One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.

John W. Gardner

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.

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