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...
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 you would not have affliction visit you twice listen at once to what it teaches.
He who is shipwrecked twice is foolish to blame the sea.
Do not be afraid of mistakes providing you do not make the same one twice.
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.
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.
If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.
Experience teaches us the events of a lifetime.
The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Defeat is a thing of weariness of incoherence of boredom.
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 only failure which lacks dignity is the failure to try.
It is better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too late.
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.
Forget your mistakes but remember what they taught you.
I have made mistakes but I have never made the mistake of claiming that I never made one.
He who has never failed somewhere that man cannot be great.
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...