Failures Quotes

He who is shipwrecked twice is foolish to blame the sea.

He who is shipwrecked the second time cannot lay the blame on Neptune.

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.

There is nothing wrong with making mistakes. Just don't respond with encores.

The road to wisdom? Well it's plain and simple to express: Err and err and err again. But less and less and less.

I made a mistake today I made a mistake yesterday. I think it's ... very important to ignore the negative.

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.

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.

If I lose I'll walk away and never feel bad.... Because I did all I could there was nothing more to do.

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.

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.

Forget your mistakes but remember what they taught you.

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.

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

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

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 is an event never a person.

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

Take chances make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.

Take risks. You can't fall off the bottom.

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.

You must have long-range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short-range failures.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Nothing succeeds like failure.

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.

He alone fails who gives up and lies down.

Failure is not in losing but in no longer believing that winning is worthwhile.

It ain't no disgrace for a man to fall but to lie there and grunt is.

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.

Not failure but low aim is a crime.

There is only one real failure in life that is possible and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Perhaps the only real failure is that implying waste a conscious and flagrant non-use or misuse of ability.

There are two kinds of failures: The man who will do nothing he is told and the man who will do nothing else.

Men do not fail they stop trying.

If you risk nothing then you risk everything.

Men must try and try again.

In the past few women have tried and even fewer have succeeded.

A mistake is not a failure but evidence that someone tried to do something.

Man must strive and in striving he must err.