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Failures and Mistakes QuotesFamous Failures and Mistakes quotes by popular authors such as Elbert Hubbard, Mary Pickford, George Eliot, Henry Ford, Christian Bovee and others.
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[highlight-text]In a great mistake.
Nathalia Crane
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[highlight-text]Failure is impossible.
Susan B. Anthony
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[highlight-text]A good marksman may miss.
Thomas Fuller
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[highlight-text]How are the mighty fallen!
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]Men must try and try again.
Lawson Purdy
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[highlight-text]Thought is born of failure.
Lancelot Law Whyte
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[highlight-text]A stumble may prevent a fall.
Thomas Fuller
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[highlight-text]Nothing recedes like success.
Walter Winchell
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[highlight-text]Nothing succeeds like failure.
Rebecca West
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[highlight-text]People fail forward to success.
Mary Kay Ash
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[highlight-text]Man errs as long as he struggles.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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[highlight-text]Men are born to succeed not fail.
Henry David Thoreau
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[highlight-text]Failure is an event not a person.
Zig Ziglar
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[highlight-text]Men do not fail; they stop trying.
Elihu Root
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[highlight-text]To err is human; to forgive divine.
Alexander Pope
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[highlight-text]Failure is an event never a person.
William D. Brown
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[highlight-text]He's no failure. He's not dead yet.
W. L. George
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[highlight-text]Not failure but low aim is a crime.
James Russell Lowell
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[highlight-text]A man must learn to forgive himself.
Arthur Davison Ficke
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[highlight-text]Disappointment is the nurse of wisdom.
Sir Boyle Roche
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[highlight-text]A clever man commits no minor blunders.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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[highlight-text]Finite to fail but infinite to venture.
Emily Dickinson
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[highlight-text]You're never beaten until you admit it.
George S. Patton
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[highlight-text]Failure is success if we learn from it.
Malcolm Forbes
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[highlight-text]The best brewer sometimes makes bad beer.
German Proverb
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[highlight-text]There is no reason to repeat bad history.
Eleanor Holmes Norton
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[highlight-text]No man is a failure who is enjoying life.
William Feather
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[highlight-text]If you can't accept losing you can't win.
Vince Lombardi
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[highlight-text]Life is not life unless you make mistakes.
Joan Collins
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[highlight-text]Take risks. You can't fall off the bottom.
Barbara Proctor
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[highlight-text]He alone fails who gives up and lies down.
Ralph Waldo Trine
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[highlight-text]Only he who does nothing makes no mistakes.
French Proverb
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[highlight-text]Who would not rather trust and be deceived?
Eliza Cook
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[highlight-text]Failure is a disappointment but not defeat.
Jeanne Robertson
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[highlight-text]Life is a series of relapses and recoveries.
George Ade
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[highlight-text]Man must strive and in striving he must err.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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[highlight-text]The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
Helen Keller
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[highlight-text]One who fears failure limits his activities.
Henry Ford
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[highlight-text]Better a false belief than no belief at all.
George Eliot
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[highlight-text]If you risk nothing then you risk everything.
Geena Davis
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[highlight-text]Defeat in doing right is nevertheless victory.
Frederick W. Robertson
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[highlight-text]They fail and they alone who have not striven.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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[highlight-text]Many a man never fails because he never tries.
Norman MacEwan
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[highlight-text]Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.
Georges Carpentier
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[highlight-text]Every man's got to figure to get beat sometime.
Joe Louis
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[highlight-text]He that has much to do will do something wrong.
Samuel Johnson
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[highlight-text]There is no failure except in no longer trying.
Elbert Hubbard
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[highlight-text]Don't use the conduct of a fool as a precedent.
Talmud
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[highlight-text]Failure is not sweet but it need not be bitter.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]Winning is a habit. Unfortunately so is losing.
Vince Lombardi
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[highlight-text]A mistake is simply another way of doing things.
Katherine Graham
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[highlight-text]When I have listened to my mistakes I have grown.
Hugh Prather
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[highlight-text]If you're not failing you're not trying anything.
Woody Allen
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[highlight-text]Failure is usually the line of least persistence.
Wilfred Beaver
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[highlight-text]Most people don't plan to fail they fail to plan.
John L. Beckley
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[highlight-text]An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.
Caroline L. Gascoigne
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[highlight-text]Who thinks it just to be judged by a single error?
Beryl Markham
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[highlight-text]Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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[highlight-text]What we have most to fear is failure of the heart.
Sonia Johnson
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[highlight-text]All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection.
William Faulkner
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[highlight-text]In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.
Albert Einstein
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[highlight-text]Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Oscar Wilde
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[highlight-text]He only is exempt from failures who makes no effort.
Richard Whately
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[highlight-text]Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures.
Bernard M. Baruch
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[highlight-text]The ultimate umpire of all things in life is - fact.
Agnes C. Laut
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[highlight-text]Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.
Earl Wilson
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[highlight-text]You can't expect to win unless you know why you lose.
Benjamin Lipson
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[highlight-text]Fool me once shame on you; fool me twice shame on me.
Chinese Proverb
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[highlight-text]Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
C. S. Lewis
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[highlight-text]Men's best successes come after their disappointments.
Henry Ward Beecher
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[highlight-text]From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus
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[highlight-text]There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
Michel de Montaigne
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[highlight-text]Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.
Sophia Loren
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[highlight-text]He is always right who suspects that he makes mistakes.
Spanish Proverb
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[highlight-text]For a just man falleth seven times and riseth up again.
Bible
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[highlight-text]A peacefulness follows any decision even the wrong one.
Rita Mae Brown
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[highlight-text]Forget your mistakes but remember what they taught you.
Dorothy Galyean
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[highlight-text]Memories are the key not to the past but to the future.
Corrie ten Boom
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[highlight-text]Some of the biggest failures I ever had were successes.
Pearl S. Buck
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[highlight-text]Sometimes what you want to do has to fail so you won't.
Margueritte Harmon Bro
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[highlight-text]We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.
David Grayson
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[highlight-text]Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.
James A. Froude
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[highlight-text]War is a series of catastrophes that results in victory.
Georges Clemenceau
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[highlight-text]He who is shipwrecked twice is foolish to blame the sea.
Publilius Syrus
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[highlight-text]You can beat the Bear once but never the same way twice.
John McKay
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[highlight-text]The greatest general is he who makes the fewest mistakes.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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[highlight-text]Defeat is a thing of weariness of incoherence of boredom.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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[highlight-text]Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.
Rosalind Russell
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[highlight-text]Knowledge rests not upon truth alone but upon error also.
Carl Jung
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[highlight-text]A lot of places can be the wrong place at the wrong time.
Bill Clinton
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[highlight-text]Wise men learn by other men's mistakes fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn
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[highlight-text]We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.
Maya Angelou
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[highlight-text]He who has never failed somewhere that man cannot be great.
Herman Melville
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[highlight-text]Ah how steadily do they who are guilty shrink from reproof!
Amelia Jenks Bloomer
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[highlight-text]The fault dear Brutus is not in our stars but in ourselves.
William Shakespeare
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[highlight-text]The only failure which lacks dignity is the failure to try.
Malcolm F. MacNeil
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[highlight-text]Failure is a school in which the truth always grows strong.
Henry Ward Beecher
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[highlight-text]How to succeed: Try hard enough. How to fail: Try too hard.
Malcolm Forbes
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[highlight-text]We will be victorious if we have not forgotten how to learn.
Rosa Luxemburg
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[highlight-text]Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
Auguste Rodin
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[highlight-text]I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.
Sophocles
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[highlight-text]Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Robert F. Kennedy
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[highlight-text]The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Edward J. Phelps
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[highlight-text]The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose.
John McEnroe
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[highlight-text]The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
John Powell
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[highlight-text]To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.
Joseph Chilton Pearce
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[highlight-text]Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.
Phyllis Therous
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[highlight-text]Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
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[highlight-text]Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes.
Lewis E. Lawes
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[highlight-text]In the past few women have tried and even fewer have succeeded.
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
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[highlight-text]Failure is just another way to learn how to do something right.
Marian Wright Edelman
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[highlight-text]A series of failures may culminate in the best possible result.
Gisela Richter
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[highlight-text]Mistakes and errors are the discipline through which we advance.
William Ellery Channing
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[highlight-text]The word fate ... is the refuge of every self-confessed failure.
Andrew Soutar
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[highlight-text]To stumble twice against the same stone is a proverbial disgrace.
Cicero
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[highlight-text]Losses are comparative imagination only makes them of any moment.
Blaise Pascal
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[highlight-text]To know that one has never really tried - that is the only death.
Marie Dressler
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[highlight-text]Failure is only an opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
Henry Ford
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[highlight-text]To err is human. To blame it on somebody else is even more human.
Arthur Bloch
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[highlight-text]Admitting error clears the score and proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman
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[highlight-text]Any man can make mistakes but only an idiot persists in his error.
Cicero
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[highlight-text]We have forty million reasons for failure but not a single excuse.
Rudyard Kipling
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[highlight-text]Failure is the only opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
Henry Ford
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[highlight-text]Our mistakes won't irreparably damage our lives unless we let them.
James E. Sweeney
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[highlight-text]It is human to err but it is devilish to remain willfully in error.
Saint Augustine
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[highlight-text]You don't always win your battles but it's good to know you fought.
Marjorie Holmes
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[highlight-text]Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.
Publilius Syrus
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[highlight-text]Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill
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[highlight-text]Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.
Daniel Webster
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[highlight-text]If you're gonna be a failure at least be one at something you enjoy.
Sylvester Stallone
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[highlight-text]Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Franklin P. Jones
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[highlight-text]It ain't no disgrace for a man to fall but to lie there and grunt is.
Josh Billings
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[highlight-text]It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes.
Flannery O'Connor
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[highlight-text]Disappointments are to the soul what the thunder-storm is to the air.
J. C. F. von Schiller
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[highlight-text]The entire history of science is a progression of exploded fallacies.
Ayn Rand
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[highlight-text]The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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[highlight-text]He who is shipwrecked the second time cannot lay the blame on Neptune.
English Proverb
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[highlight-text]Disillusion is a natural stage that follows the holding of an illusion.
Susan Shaughnessy
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[highlight-text]You may be disappointed if you fail but you are doomed if you don't try.
Beverly Sills
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[highlight-text]The fellow who never makes a mistake takes his orders from one who does.
Herbert V. Prochnow
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[highlight-text]It is a very dangerous thing to have an idea that you will not practice.
Phyllis Bottome
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[highlight-text]Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objects and principles.
Jawaharlal Nehru
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[highlight-text]Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment.
Jim Horning
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[highlight-text]If all else fails immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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[highlight-text]Let us not be needlessly bitter; certain failures are sometimes fruitful.
E. M. Cioran
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[highlight-text]I think success has no rules but you can learn a great deal from failure.
Jean Kerr
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[highlight-text]It is the true nature of mankind to learn from mistakes not from example.
Fred Hoyle
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[highlight-text]One loss is good for the soul. Too many losses are not good for the coach.
Knute Rockne
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[highlight-text]Do not be afraid of mistakes providing you do not make the same one twice.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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[highlight-text]He that's cheated twice by the same man is an accomplice with the cheater.
Thomas Fuller
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[highlight-text]There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.
Max Beerbohm
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[highlight-text]The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.
Theodore Roosevelt
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[highlight-text]A mistake is not a failure but evidence that someone tried to do something.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]Failure is the foundation of success and the means by which it is achieved.
Lao-Tzu
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[highlight-text]Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.
Brendan Francis
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[highlight-text]And what if I did run my ship aground; oh still it was splendid to sail it!
Henrik Ibsen
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[highlight-text]The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.
Voltaire
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[highlight-text]No man ever progressed to greatness and goodness but through great mistakes.
Frederick W. Robertson
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[highlight-text]Good judgment comes from experience and experience comes from poor judgment.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]From their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
Plutarch
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[highlight-text]There is nothing wrong with making mistakes. Just don't respond with encores.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]If I had to live my life over again I'd dare to make more mistakes next time.
Nadine Stair
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[highlight-text]No honest work of man or woman 'fails'; it feeds the sum of all human action.
Michelene Wandor
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[highlight-text]Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.
Coco Chanel
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[highlight-text]The sight of a cage is only frightening to the bird that has once been caught.
Rachel Field
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[highlight-text]I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down.
Allen H. Neuharth
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[highlight-text]Half the failures in life come from pulling one's horse in when he is leaping.
A. W. Hare
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[highlight-text]But to him who tries and fails and dies I give great honor and glory and tears.
Joaquin Miller
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[highlight-text]Failure is not in losing but in no longer believing that winning is worthwhile.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]If you play it safe in life you've decided that you don't want to grow anymore.
Shirley Hufstedler
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[highlight-text]Failure is delay but not defeat. It is a temporary detour not a dead-end street.
William Arthur Ward
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[highlight-text]There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you.
Woody Hayes
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[highlight-text]Intelligence is not to make no mistakes but quickly to see how to make them good.
Bertolt Brecht
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[highlight-text]There's folks 'ud stand on their heads and then say the fault was i' their boots.
George Eliot
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[highlight-text]Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.
Mary Kay Ash
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[highlight-text]Your success depends on your ability to dream and follow through on those dreams.
Jinger Heath
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[highlight-text]No experiment is ever a complete failure. It can always be used as a bad example.
Paul Dickson
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[highlight-text]Lack of will power has caused more failures than lack of intelligence or ability.
Flower A. Newhouse
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[highlight-text]I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.
Michael Jordan
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[highlight-text]The causes of mistakes are 'I didn't know'; 'I didn't think'; and 'I didn't care.'
Henry H. Buckley
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[highlight-text]A failure is a man who has blundered but is not able to cash in on the experience.
Elbert Hubbard
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[highlight-text]If you would not have affliction visit you twice listen at once to what it teaches.
James Burgh
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[highlight-text]Those who try and fail are much wiser than those who never try for fear of failure.
Andre Bustanoby
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[highlight-text]Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God.
Charles Horton Cooley
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[highlight-text]If your project doesn't work look for the part that you didn't think was important.
Arther Bloch
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[highlight-text]Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.
Edward Dowden
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[highlight-text]Half the things that people do not succeed in are through fear of making the attempt.
James Northcote
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[highlight-text]What is defeat? Nothing but education nothing but the first step to something better.
Wendell Phillips
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[highlight-text]Who would not rather flounder in the fight than not have known the glory of the fray?
Richard Hovey
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[highlight-text]In all science error precedes the truth and it is better it should go first than last.
Hugh Walpole
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[highlight-text]We all choke and the man who says he doesn't choke is lying like hell. We all leak oil.
Lee Trevino
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[highlight-text]If you have made mistakes even serious mistakes there is always another chance for you.
Mary Pickford
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[highlight-text]A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.
Confucius
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[highlight-text]Inaction contrary to its reputation for being a refuge is neither safe nor comfortable.
Madeleine Kunin
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[highlight-text]Failure is something made only by those who fail to dare not by those who dare to fail.
Louis Binstock
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[highlight-text]An error is simply a failure to adjust immediately from a preconception to an actuality.
John Cage
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[highlight-text]A failure establishes only this that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
Christian Bovee
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[highlight-text]Three failures denotes uncommon strength. A weakling had not enough grit to fail thrice.
Minna Antrim
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[highlight-text]If we will be quiet and ready enough we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
Henry David Thoreau
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[highlight-text]It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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[highlight-text]The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
Elbert Hubbard
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[highlight-text]Mistakes fail in their mission of helping the person who blames them on the other fellow.
Henry S. Haskins
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[highlight-text]I have made mistakes but I have never made the mistake of claiming that I never made one.
James Gordon Bennett
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[highlight-text]You must have long-range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short-range failures.
Charles C. Noble
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[highlight-text]Learn from the mistakes of others - you can't live long enough to make them all yourself.
Martin Vanbee
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[highlight-text]We are less likely to fail if we measure with judgement our chances and our capabilities.
Agnes Repplier
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[highlight-text]A man may fall many times but he won't be a failure until he says that someone pushed him.
Elmer G. Letterman
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[highlight-text]I don't accept defeat as final. Only death is final - and even then I hope for a reprieve.
Phil Gramm
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[highlight-text]There are no mistakes no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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[highlight-text]Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
George Washington Carver
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[highlight-text]Flops are a part of life's menu and Eve never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
Rosalind Russell
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[highlight-text]Be aware that young people have to be able to make their own mistakes and that times change.
Gina Shapira
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[highlight-text]Inside of a ring or out ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong.
Muhammad Ali
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[highlight-text]Through failure we learn a lesson in humility which is probably needed painful though it is.
Bill W.
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[highlight-text]The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
Chinese Proverb
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[highlight-text]The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.
George Eliot
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[highlight-text]The man who can own up to his error is greater than he who merely knows how to avoid making it.
Cardinal de Retz
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[highlight-text]All men are liable to error; and most men are ... by passion or interest under temptation to it.
John Locke
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[highlight-text]A man is fortunate if he encounters living examples of vice as well as of virtue to inspire him.
Brendan Francis
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[highlight-text]Failure is that early morning hour of darkness which precedes the dawning of the day of success.
Leigh Mitchell Hodges
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[highlight-text]They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has but I notice he usually blunders forward.
Thomas Edison
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[highlight-text]It's good to fail now and again - you learn a lot more out of failure than you do out of success.
Ian Hunter
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[highlight-text]If at first you don't succeed try try again. Then quit. There's no use being a damn fool about it.
W. C. Fields
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[highlight-text]The errors of great men are venerable because they are more fruitful than the truths of little men.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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[highlight-text]Failure is God's own tool for carving some of the finest outlines in the character of his children.
Thomas Hodgkin
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[highlight-text]Show me a person who has never made a mistake and Ell show you somebody who has never achieved much.
Joan Collins
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]If any good results to a man from believing a lie it certainly comes from the honesty of his belief.
Margaret Collier Graham
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[highlight-text]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.
Pearl Bailey
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[highlight-text]It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands new undertakings and new forms of expression.
Eric Hoffer
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[highlight-text]The man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere.
Frank Swinnerton
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[highlight-text]There might be false starts and do-overs. You are entitled to experiment before you find your calling.
Jane Pauley
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[highlight-text]Losers have tons of variety. Champions take pride in just learning to hit the same old boring winners.
Vic Braden
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[highlight-text]There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from failure.
Colin Powell
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[highlight-text]If I lose I'll walk away and never feel bad.... Because I did all I could there was nothing more to do.
Joe Frazier
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[highlight-text]It is better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too late.
Marilyn Moats Kennedy
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[highlight-text]A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
George Bernard Shaw
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
John W. Gardner
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[highlight-text]The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons
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[highlight-text]I don't think there's anything to be afraid of. Failure brings great rewards -- in the life of an artist.
Quentin Tarantino
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]I made a mistake today I made a mistake yesterday. I think it's ... very important to ignore the negative.
Jerry Rubin
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[highlight-text]No matter how hard the loss defeat might serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.
Al Gore
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[highlight-text]Perhaps the only real failure is that implying waste a conscious and flagrant non-use or misuse of ability.
Joseph H. Odell
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[highlight-text]Failures are divided into two classes: those who thought and never did and those who did and never thought.
John Charles Salak
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[highlight-text]Peole do think that if they avoid the truth it might change to something better before they have to hear it.
Marsha Norman
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[highlight-text]The wisest person is not the one who has the fewest failures but the one who turns failures to best account.
Richard R. Grant
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]I cannot give you the formula for success but I can give you the formula for failure: try to please everybody.
Herbert Bayard Swope
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[highlight-text]Most men fail not through lack of education but from lack of dogged determination from lack of dauntless will.
Orison Swett Marden
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[highlight-text]Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.
Robert Half
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[highlight-text]It is not easy but you have to be willing to make mistakes. And the earlier you make those mistakes the better.
Jane Cahill Pfeiffer
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[highlight-text]The great virtue of man lies in his ability to correct his mistakes and to continually make a new man of himself.
Wang Yang-Ming
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]I think and think for months for years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Albert Einstein
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[highlight-text]Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.
George Eliot
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[highlight-text]Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
John Dewey
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[highlight-text]It is only an error in judgement to make a mistake but it shows infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.
Christian Bovee
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[highlight-text]Life like war is a series of mistakes and he is best who wins the most splendid victories by the retrieval of mistakes.
Frederick W. Robertson
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[highlight-text]I try to extract something positive from [every] situation even if it's just learning not to make the same mistake twice.
Claudia Schiffer
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[highlight-text]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 Clemenceau
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[highlight-text]The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
Abraham Lincoln
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[highlight-text]Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.
Herbert Kaufman
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[highlight-text]Life is the only real counselor. Wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.
Edith Wharton
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[highlight-text]Forget mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day.
Will Durant
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[highlight-text]Having harvested all the knowledge and wisdom we can from our mistakes and failures we should put them behind us and go ahead.
Edith Johnson
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes. It takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.
Jessamyn West
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]Errors are inevitable. The mark of character is not refusing to recognize them but acknowledging them and taking responsibility.
Andrew Sullivan
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]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.
Audrey Hepburn
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]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.
Richard C. Trench
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[highlight-text]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.
Bill Vaughan
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[highlight-text]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.
George Cukor
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it; so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.
Elbert Hubbard
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[highlight-text]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 Kubler-Ross
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[highlight-text]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.
B. C. Forbes
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[highlight-text]We may fail of our happiness strive we ever so bravely; but we are less likely to fail if we measure with judgment our chances and our capabilities.
Agnes Repplier
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[highlight-text]Expect people to be better than they are; it helps them to become better. But don't be disappointed when they are not; it helps them to keep trying.
Merry Browne
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[highlight-text]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.
Mary Pickford
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]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.
Alice Koller
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[highlight-text]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.
James Reston
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]If I had permitted my failures or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.
Calvin Coolidge
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[highlight-text]There is something distinguished about even his failures; they sink not trivially but with a certain air of majesty like a great ship its flags flying full of holes.
George Jean Nathan
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[highlight-text]It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated...it is finished when it surrenders.
Ben Stein
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]I have known men who could see through the motivations of others with the skill of a clairvoyant; only to prove blind to their own mistakes. I have been one of those men.
Bernard M. Baruch
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[highlight-text]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.
David Seabury
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[highlight-text]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.
Lord Acton
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[highlight-text]Here's to the men who lose! What though their work be e'er so nobly plann'd And watched with zealous care; No glorious halo crowns their efforts grand - Contempt is Failure's share!
G. L. Scarborough
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[highlight-text]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.
Cynthia Heimel
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[highlight-text]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.
Mary Pickford
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[highlight-text]Self distrust is the cause of most of our failures. In the assurance of strength there is strength and they are the weakest however strong who have no faith in themselves or their own powers.
Christian Bovee
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[highlight-text]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.
Cybil Shepherd
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]I am not judged by the number of times I fail but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.
Tom Hopkins
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[highlight-text]If a man has talent and can't use it he's failed. If he uses only half of it he has partly failed. If he uses the whole of it he has succeeded and won a satisfaction and triumph few men ever know.
Thomas Wolfe
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[highlight-text]Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs divorce fornication bullying travel meditation medication depression neurosis and suicide. With failure comes failure.
Joseph Heller
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[highlight-text]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.
Hugh White
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]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.
Richard Bach
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]What you have lost will not be returned to you. It will always be lost. You're left with only your scars to mark the void. All you can choose to do is go on or not. But if you go on it's knowing you carry your scars with you.
Charles Frazier
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]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.
Sam Collins
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]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.
John Keats
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[highlight-text]The baby rises to its feet takes a step is overcome with triumph and joy - and falls flat on its face. It is a pattern for all that is to come! But learn from the bewildered baby. Lurch to your feet again. You'll make the sofa in the end.
Pam Brown
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]If I ran a school I'd give the average grade to the ones who gave me all the right answers for being good parrots. I'd give the top grades to those who made a lot of mistakes and told me about them and then told me what they learned from them.
Buckminster Fuller
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[highlight-text]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.
Lisa M. Amos
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]I have missed more than 9 000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game winning shot and I missed. And I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is precisely why I succeed.
Michael Jordan
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[highlight-text]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.
Thomas Wolfe
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]The greatness comes not when things always go good for you. But the greatness comes when you're really tested when you take some knocks some disappointments when sadness comes. Because only if you've been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.
Richard Nixon
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]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.
Jane Harrison
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[highlight-text]Today is a new day. You will get out of it just what you put into it. ... If you have made mistakes even serious mistakes there is always another chance for you. And 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.
Mary Pickford
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[highlight-text]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.
Edward McCabe