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A mistake is a learning experience you should have seen coming. --Diane Reamy
Act as if it were impossible to fail. --Dorothea Brande
Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have. --Louis E. Boone
Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. --Samuel Beckett
Failure is not an option. It is a privilege reserved only for those who try.
Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most often makes for success. --Dale Carnegie
Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free. --Tom Robbins, "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues"
I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure. --Anne Baxter
If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you.
If first you dont succeed, try again. Then give up. No sense being ridiculous about it.
If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner. --Tallulah Bankhead
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
In order to succeed we must first believe that we can. --Michael Korda
Learn from the mistakes of others -- you can never live long enough to make them all yourself. --"Bits & Pieces"
Mistakes are the price we pay for a full life. --Sophia Loren
No one is a failure who is enjoying life.
Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I'll show you someone who has never achieved much. --Joan Collins
Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy, wisdom, charity. --Dr. William Menninger
Some mistakes are too much fun to only make once.
Success is to be measured not so much by the position one has reached in life, as by the obstacles one has overcome in trying to succeed. --Booker T. Washington
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. --William Feather
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. --Elbert Hubbard
The mistakes are all waiting to be made. --chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower on the game's opening position
The one good thing about repeating mistakes is you know when to cringe.
There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see. --Malcolm Muggeridge
There is nothing final about a mistake, except its being taken as final. --Phyllis Bottome
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived.This is to have succeeded. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail? --Dr. Robert Schuller
You learn a lot by failing. Don't be afraid to fail. What the fear of failing eventuates in is the fear of beginning. --Philip Levine
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try. --Beverly Sills
You must have long-range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short-range failures. --Charles C. Noble
