~ Failures and Mistakes Quotes ~

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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