Mistakes Quotes - Page 4

What is to be got at to make the air sweet the ground good under the feet can only be got at by failure trial again and again and again failure.

Sherwood Anderson

They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has but I notice he usually blunders forward.

Thomas A. Edison

Some of the biggest failures I ever had were successes.

Not all who seem to fail have failed indeed. Not all who fail have therefore worked in vain. There is no failure for the good and brave.

Archbishop Trench

No honest work of man or woman "fails" it feeds the sum of all human action.

Michelene Wandor

Defeat in doing right is nevertheless victory.

Frederick W. Robertson

Sometimes what you want to do has to fail so you won't.

Margueritte Harmon Bro

There are defeats more triumphant than victories.

Michel de Montaigne

Nothing succeeds like failure.

Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times you don't want to set him down as a failure until he's dead or loses his courage - and that's the same thing.

George Horace Lorimer

What we have most to fear is failure of the heart.

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

William Feather

I've never met a person I don't care what his condition in whom I could not see possibilities. I don't care how much a man may consider himself a failure I believe in him for he can change the thing that is wrong in his life anytime he is prepared and ready to do it. Whenever he develops the desire he can take away from his life the thing that is defeating it. The capacity for reformation and change lies within.

Preston Bradley

Supposing you have tried and failed again and again. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose for this thing that we call "failure" is not the falling down but the staying down.

Failure is a disappointment but not defeat.

Jeanne Robertson

Memories are the key not to the past but to the future.

Corrie ten Boom

Failure is delay but not defeat. It is a temporary detour not a dead-end street.

William A. Ward

Finite to fail but infinite to venture.

Emily Dickinson

When in doubt make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell leap.

Failure really isn't terrible if you can say to yourself hey I know I'm gonna be successful at what I want to do someday. Failure doesn't become a big hangup then because it's only temporary. If failure is absolute then it would be a disaster but as long as it's only temporary you can just go and achieve almost anything.

Jerry Delia Femina

Failure is an event never a person.

William D. Brown

It is better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too late.

Marilyn Moats Kennedy

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.

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