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.
Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.
The best brewer sometimes makes bad beer.
The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.
Having harvested all the knowledge and wisdom we can from our mistakes and failures we should put them behind us and go ahead.
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.
People fail forward to success.
What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.
A stumble may prevent a fall.
The fellow who never makes a mistake takes his orders from one who does.
One who fears failure limits his activities.
The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
I have known men who could see through the motivations of others with the skill of a clairvoyant only to prove blind to their own mistakes. I have been one of those men.
From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.
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.
Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objects and principles.
There are two kinds of failures: The man who will do nothing he is told and the man who will do nothing else.
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.
To stumble twice against the same stone is a proverbial disgrace.
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