~ Failures and Mistakes Quotes ~

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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