Failures Quotes

Whenever at an accusation blind rage burns up within us the reason is that some arrow has pierced the joints of our harness. Behind our shining armour of righteous indignation lurks a convicted and only half-repentant sinner ... [and] we may be almost sure some sharp and bitter grain of truth lurks within it and the wound is best probed.

~ Jane Harrison

The fault dear Brutus is not in our stars but in ourselves.

~ William Shakespeare

There's folks 'ud stand on their heads and then say the fault was i' their boots.

~ George Eliot

Admitting error clears the score and proves you wiser than before.

~ Arthur Guiterman

Mistakes fail in their mission of helping the person who blames them on the other fellow.

~ Henry S. Haskins

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.

~ Bernard M. Baruch

I have made mistakes but I have never made the mistake of claiming that I never made one.

~ James Gordon Bennett

The man who can own up to his error is greater than he who merely knows how to avoid making it.

~ Cardinal De Retz

A man may fall many times but he won't be a failure until he says that someone pushed him.

~ Elmer G. Letterman

Do not be afraid of mistakes providing you do not make the same one twice.

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

To stumble twice against the same stone is a proverbial disgrace.

~ Cicero

Fool me once shame on you fool me twice shame on me.

~ Chinese Proverb

There is no reason to repeat bad history.

~ Eleanor Holmes Norton

I try to extract something positive from [every] situation even if it's just learning not to make the same mistake twice.

~ Claudia Schiffer

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

~ Publilius Syrus

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

~ English Proverb

He that's cheated twice by the same man is an accomplice with the cheater.

~ Thomas Fuller

If you would not have affliction visit you twice listen at once to what it teaches.

~ James Burgh

You can beat the Bear once but never the same way twice.

~ John Mckay

Any man can make mistakes but only an idiot persists in his error.

~ Cicero

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

~ Anonymous

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

~ Piet Hein

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

~ Jerry Rubin

The biggest quality in successful people I think is an impatience with negative thinking. ... How many opportunities come along? If you wait for the right one that's wrong because it may never be right and what have you got to lose? Even if it's a disaster you've tried you've learned something you've had an adventure. And that doesn't mean you can't do it again.

~ Edward Mccabe

A peacefulness follows any decision even the wrong one.

~ Rita Mae Brown

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.

~ Rosalynn Carter

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.

~ Katherine Mansfield

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

~ Joe Frazier

A man must learn to forgive himself.

~ Arthur Davison Ficke

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.

~ Rosalynn Carter

Who would not rather trust and be deceived?

~ Eliza Cook

Forget mistakes. Forget failure. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day.

~ Will Durant

There is a way to look at the past. Don't hide from it. It will not catch you if you don't repeat it.

~ Pearl Bailey

Forget your mistakes but remember what they taught you.

~ Dorothy Galyean

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.

~ Mary Pickford

Failure is a disappointment but not defeat.

~ Jeanne Robertson

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

~ Corrie Ten Boom

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

~ William A. Ward

Finite to fail but infinite to venture.

~ Emily Dickinson

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.

~ Cynthia Heimel