Failure is that early morning hour of darkness which precedes the dawning of the day of success.
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.
Failure is only an opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
You don't always win your battles but it's good to know you fought.
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.
To know that one has never really tried - that is the only death.
Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes.
Sometimes what you want to do has to fail so you won't.
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.
It is better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too late.
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 fai...
Finite to fail but infinite to venture.
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.
Ah how steadily do they who are guilty shrink from reproof!
A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.
No man ever progressed to greatness and goodness but through great mistakes.
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.......
All men are liable to error and most men are ... by passion or interest under temptation to it.
Failures, mistakes, and difficulties are just locations on your journey through life. They have nothing to do with who you are.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.