The man who has done his level best and who is conscious that he has done his best is a success even though the world may write him down a failure.
~ B. C. Forbes
Many a man never fails because he never tries.
~ Norman Macewan
Good judgment comes from experience and experience comes from poor judgment.
~ Anonymous
Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.
~ Georges Carpentier
When I have listened to my mistakes I have grown.
~ Hugh Prather
Mistakes and errors are the discipline through which we advance.
~ William Ellery Channing
A stumble may prevent a fall.
~ Thomas Fuller
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
~ George Bernard Shaw
It is defeat that turns bone to flint it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle it is defeat that makes men invincible. Do not then be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Besides the practical knowledge which defeat offers there are important personality profits to be taken. Defeat strips away false values and makes you realize what you really want. It stops you from chasing butterflies and puts you to work digging gold.
~ William M. Marston
No experiment is ever a complete failure. It can always be used as a bad example.
~ Paul Dickson
Failure is the foundation of success and the means by which it is achieved.
~ Lao Tzu
There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.
~ Max Beerbohm
Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God.
~ Charles Horton Cooley
It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands new undertakings and new forms of expression.
~ Eric Hoffer
Let us not be needlessly bitter certain failures are sometimes fruitful.
~ E. M. Cioran
If I win several tournaments in a row I get so confident I'm in a cloud. A loss gets me eager again.
~ Chris Evert Lloyd
There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you.
~ Woody Hayes
Failure is only an opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
~ Henry Ford
The wisest person is not the one who has the fewest failures but the one who turns failures to best account.
~ Richard R. Grant
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.
~ James Reston
Failure is God's own tool for carving some of the finest outlines in the character of his children.
~ Thomas Hodgkin
I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down.
~ Allen H. Neuharth
What is defeat? Nothing but education nothing but the first step to something better.
~ Wendell Phillips
From their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
~ Plutarch
Having harvested all the knowledge and wisdom we can from our mistakes and failures we should put them behind us and go ahead.
~ Edith Johnson
I think success has no rules but you can learn a great deal from failure.
~ Jean Kerr
Failure is just another way to learn how to do something right.
~ Marian Wright Edelman
There are no mistakes no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from.
~ Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
We will be victorious if we have not forgotten how to learn.
~ Rosa Luxemburg
It is the true nature of mankind to learn from mistakes not from example.
~ Fred Hoyle
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 way to a deeper truth but force him to change his views and methods.
~ Carl Jung
Failure ... is in a sense the highway to success inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterward carefully avoid.
~ John Keats
We need to teach a highly educated person that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently for failing is one of the greatest arts of the world.
~ Charles F. Kettering
When a man is pushed tormented defeated he has a chance to learn something he has been put on his wits on his manhood he has gained the facts learned his ignorance is cured of the insanity of conceit has got moderation and real skill.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves no matter how unpleasant are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn whatever steps we take they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go.
~ Richard Bach
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
~ John Dewey
Failure is a school in which the truth always grows strong.
The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose.
~ John Mcenroe
It's good to fail now and again - you learn a lot more out of failure than you do out of success.
~ Ian Hunter
