Mistakes Quotes

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.

~ David Seabury

If I had to live my life over again I'd dare to make more mistakes next time.

~ Nadine Stair

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

~ Herbert Kaufman

Entrepreneurs average 3.8 failures before final success. What sets the successful ones apart is their amazing persistence. There are a lot of people out there with good and marketable ideas but pure entrepreneurial types almost never accept defeat.

~ Lisa M. Amos

Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

~ Winston Churchill

I don't accept defeat as final. Only death is final - and even then I hope for a reprieve.

~ Phil Gramm

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

Men's best successes come after their disappointments.

~ Henry Ward Beecher

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.

~ Francis Ford Coppola

Don't let a kick in the ass stop you. It's how you cope that says what you are.

~ George Cukor

What is to be got at to make the air sweet the ground good under the feet can only be got at by failure trial again and again and again failure.

~ Sherwood Anderson

They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has but I notice he usually blunders forward.

~ Thomas A. Edison

Some of the biggest failures I ever had were successes.

~ Pearl S. Buck

Not all who seem to fail have failed indeed. Not all who fail have therefore worked in vain. There is no failure for the good and brave.

~ Archbishop Trench

No honest work of man or woman fails it feeds the sum of all human action.

~ Michelene Wandor

Defeat in doing right is nevertheless victory.

~ Frederick W. Robertson

The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

~ George Eliot

Sometimes what you want to do has to fail so you won't.

~ Margueritte Harmon Bro

There are defeats more triumphant than victories.

~ Michel De Montaigne

An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.

~ Caroline L. Gascoigne

Nothing succeeds like failure.

~ Rebecca West

Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times you don't want to set him down as a failure until he's dead or loses his courage - and that's the same thing.

~ George Horace Lorimer

What we have most to fear is failure of the heart.

~ Sonia Johnson

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

~ William Feather

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.

~ Edmund Vance Cooke

He alone fails who gives up and lies down.

~ Ralph Waldo Trine

Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes.

~ Lewis E. Lawes

Failure is not in losing but in no longer believing that winning is worthwhile.

~ Anonymous

He's no failure. He's not dead yet.

~ W. L. George

Inside of a ring or out ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong.

~ Muhammad Ali

It ain't no disgrace for a man to fall but to lie there and grunt is.

~ Josh Billings

If you have made mistakes even serious ones there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.

~ Mary Pickford

If a man has a talent and cannot use it he has failed. If he has a talent and uses only half of it he has partly failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it he has gloriously succeeded and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.

~ Thomas Wolfe

Not failure but low aim is a crime.

~ Ernest Holmes

There is only one real failure in life that is possible and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

~ Frederic W. Farrar

Perhaps the only real failure is that implying waste a conscious and flagrant non-use or misuse of ability.

~ Joseph H. Odell

There are two kinds of failures: The man who will do nothing he is told and the man who will do nothing else.

~ Dr. Perle Thompson

The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

~ George Eliot

There is no failure except in no longer trying.

~ Elbert Hubbard

Men do not fail they stop trying.

~ Elihu Root