One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
~ John W. Gardner
Through failure we learn a lesson in humility which is probably needed painful though it is.
~ Bill W.
A failure is a man who has blundered but is not able to cash in the experience.
~ Elbert Hubbard
Like success failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude failure is a learning experience a rung on the ladder a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.
~ W Clement Stone
Disappointment is the nurse of wisdom.
~ Sir Boyle Roche
When you make a mistake don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
~ Hugh White
What can any of us do with his talent but try to develop his vision so that through frequent failures we may learn better what we have missed in the past.
~ William Carlos Williams
Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
~ Auguste Rodin
From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
~ Publilius Syrus
Learn from the mistakes of others - you can't live long enough to make them all yourself.
~ Martin Vanbee
The entire history of science is a progression of exploded fallacies.
~ Ayn Rand
Don't use the conduct of a fool as a precedent.
~ Talmud
Wise men learn by other men's mistakes fools by their own.
~ H. G. Bohn
Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.
A man is fortunate if he encounters living examples of vice as well as of virtue to inspire him.
~ Brendan Francis
The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.
A series of failures may culminate in the best possible result.
~ Gisela Richter
Failure is that early morning hour of darkness which precedes the dawning of the day of success.
~ Leigh Mitchell Hodges
People fail forward to success.
~ Mary Kay Ash
Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blossom in time and bear fruit throughout eternity.
~ Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
The causes of mistakes are I didn't know I didn't think and I didn't care.
~ Henry H. Buckley
Failures are divided into two classes: those who thought and never did and those who did and never thought.
~ John Charles Salak
A failure establishes only this that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
~ Christian Bovee
Self-distrust is the cause of most of our failures. They are the weakest however strong who have no faith in themselves or their own powers.
Defeat is a thing of weariness of incoherence of boredom.
~ Antoine De Saint-Exupéry
Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.
We fail more often by timidity than by over-daring.
~ David Grayson
Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.
~ Daniel Webster
Losers have tons of variety. Champions take pride in just learning to hit the same old boring winners.
~ Vic Braden
Lack of will power has caused more failures than lack of intelligence or ability.
~ Flower A. Newhouse
The word fate ... is the refuge of every self-confessed failure.
~ Andrew Soutar
Half the things that people do not succeed in are through fear of making the attempt.
~ James Northcote
The man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere.
~ Frank Swinnerton
Half the failures in life come from pulling one's horse in when he is leaping.
~ A. W. Hare
I cannot give you the formula for success but I can give you the formula for failure: try to please everybody.
~ Herbert Bayard Swope
If your project doesn't work look for the part that you didn't think was important.
~ Arther Bloch
Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
~ George Washington Carver
One who fears failure limits his activities.
~ Henry Ford
The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
~ Edward Simmons
We have forty million reasons for failure but not a single excuse.
~ Rudyard Kipling
