The only real mistake
is the one from which we learn nothing.
The men who try to do something,
and fail are infinitely better
than those who try nothing and succeed.
The only man who never makes a mistake
is the man who never does anything.
One hundred percent
of the shots you don’t take
don’t go in.
A child becomes an adult
when he realizes that he has a right
not only to be right
but also to be wrong.
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
Our greatest glory is not in never failing,
but in rising up every time we fail.
There is one guaranteed formula for failure,
and that is to try to please everyone.
Only those who dare to fail greatly
can ever achieve greatly.
Robert Francis Kennedy
Freedom is not worth having
if it does not include
the freedom to make mistakes.
The only time you don’t fail
is the last time you try anything
— and it works.
Learn all you can from the mistakes of others.
You won’t have time to make them all yourself.
There are two kinds of failures:
those who thought and never did,
and those who did and never thought.
The last time you failed,
did you stop trying because you failed
— or did you fail because you stopped trying?
It’s easy to stop making mistakes.
Just stop having ideas.
Failure!
There is no such word
in all the bright lexicon of speech,
unless you yourself have written it there!
There is no such thing as failure
except to those who
accept and believe in failure.
Don’t fear failure so much that you
refuse to try new things.
The saddest summary of a life
contains three descriptions:
could have,
might have,
and should have.
You may have a fresh start
at any moment you choose,
for this thing we call failure
is not the falling down,
but the staying down.
We have forty million reasons for failure,
but not a single excuse.
He who has never failed somewhere…
that man can not be great.
You may be disappointed if you fail,
but you are doomed if you don’t try.
Use missteps as stepping stones
to deeper understanding
and greater achievement.
The saddest failures in life
are those that come from not putting forth
the power and will to succeed.
A man who has committed a mistake
and doesn’t correct it,
is committing another mistake.
Failure is success if we learn from it.
The man who makes no mistakes
does not usually make anything.
Your life would be very empty
if you had nothing to regret.
From error to error,
one discovers the entire truth.
Life’s real failure
is when you do not realize
how close you were to success
when you gave up.
It is better to fail in originality
than to succeed in imitation.
In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.
We learn wisdom from failure
much more than we do from success.
We often discover what will do
by finding out what will not do,
and probably he
who never made a mistake
never made a discovery.
The only real failure in life
is one not learned from.
A life spent making mistakes
is not only more honorable but more useful
than a life spent doing nothing.
Experience is what allows us
to repeat our mistakes,
only with more finesse!
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.
Being defeated is often a temporary condition.
Giving up is what makes it permanent.
In order to succeed you must fail,
so that you know what not to do the next time.
Defeat never comes to any man
until he admits it.
You always pass failure
on the way to success.
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.
Only those who dare to fail greatly
can ever achieve greatly.
Far better is it to dare mighty things,
to win glorious triumphs,
even though checkered by failure…
than to rank with those poor spirits
who neither enjoy much nor suffer much,
because they live in a gray twilight
that knows not victory nor defeat.
Tis a lesson you should heed,
try, try again.
If at first you don’t succeed,
try, try again.
Daring ideas are like
chessmen moved forward.
They may be beaten,
but they may start a winning game.
It is better to be defeated on principle
than to win on lies.
Lack of will power has caused more failure
than lack of intelligence or ability.
There is but one cause of human failure,
and that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.