Imagine a congress of eminent celebrities such as More Bacon Grotius Pascal Cromwell Bossuet Montesquieu Jefferson Napoleon Pitt etc. They would be an Encyclopedia of Errors.
I've been failing for like ten or eleven years. When it turns it'll turn. Right now I'm just tryin' to squeeze through a very tight financial period get the movie out and put my things in order.
The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose.
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...
Take risks. You can't fall off the bottom.
There is no failure except in no longer trying.
Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.
The man who can own up to his error is greater than he who merely knows how to avoid making it.
We will be victorious if we have not forgotten how to learn.
I treat winning and losing exactly the same. I see them both as necessary steps to get us where we are going. Big failures big lessons little failures little lessons.
Not everything you believe that you can achieve, can be achieved but that won't stop you from trying.
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.
Mistakes fail in their mission of helping the person who blames them on the other fellow.
A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He does not say "My men were beaten " he says "I was beaten."
I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.
No man is a failure who is enjoying life.
The road to wisdom? Well it's plain and simple to express: Err and err and err again. But less and less and less.
The fellow who never makes a mistake takes his orders from one who does.
Life is a series of relapses and recoveries.
Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
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