Mistakes Quotes - Page 3

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.

Life is the only real counselor. Wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.

The only failure which lacks dignity is the failure to try.

Malcolm F. MacNeil

To know that one has never really tried - that is the only death.

We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we can do ... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.

If you're not failing you're not trying anything.

If you play it safe in life you've decided that you don't want to grow anymore.

Shirley Hufstedler

Those who try and fail are much wiser than those who never try for fear of failure.

Andre Bustanoby

A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed - I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.

Georges Clémenceau

To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and fall.

Robert Louis Stevenson

The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

Inaction contrary to its reputation for being a refuge is neither safe nor comfortable.

Madeleine Kunin

The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

You are beaten to earth? Well well what's that? Come up with a smiling face it's nothing against you to fall down flat but to lie there - that's disgrace.

Edmund Vance Cooke

He alone fails who gives up and lies down.

Ralph Waldo Trine

Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes.

Failure is not in losing but in no longer believing that winning is worthwhile.

Anonymous

He's no failure. He's not dead yet.

Inside of a ring or out ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong.

It ain't no disgrace for a man to fall but to lie there and grunt is.

If you have made mistakes even serious ones there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.

If a man has a talent and cannot use it he has failed. If he has a talent and uses only half of it he has partly failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it he has gloriously succeeded and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.

Not failure but low aim is a crime.

There is only one real failure in life that is possible and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Frederic W. Farrar

Perhaps the only real failure is that implying waste a conscious and flagrant non-use or misuse of ability.

Joseph H. Odell

There are two kinds of failures: The man who will do nothing he is told and the man who will do nothing else.

Dr. Perle Thompson

Men do not fail they stop trying.

Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.

It is a very dangerous thing to have an idea that you will not practice.

Phyllis Bottome

If you risk nothing then you risk everything.

Men must try and try again.

In the past few women have tried and even fewer have succeeded.

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

I've been failing for like ten or eleven years. When it turns it'll turn. Right now I'm just tryin' to squeeze through a very tight financial period get the movie out and put my things in order.

Francis Ford Coppola

Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Winston Churchill

An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.

Caroline L. Gascoigne

I don't accept defeat as final. Only death is final - and even then I hope for a reprieve.

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Men's best successes come after their disappointments.

Henry Ward Beecher

Don't let a kick in the ass stop you. It's how you cope that says what you are.

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