My Mistakes Quotes

They fail and they alone who have not striven.

Failure is something made only by those who fail to dare not by those who dare to fail.

You don't always win your battles but it's good to know you fought.

Good judgment comes from experience and experience comes from poor judgment.

Failure is the foundation of success and the means by which it is achieved.

It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands new undertakings and new forms of expression.

Let us not be needlessly bitter certain failures are sometimes fruitful.

If I win several tournaments in a row I get so confident I'm in a cloud. A loss gets me eager again.

There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you.

Disappointments are to the soul what the thunder-storm is to the air.

The wisest person is not the one who has the fewest failures but the one who turns failures to best account.

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.

Failure is God's own tool for carving some of the finest outlines in the character of his children.

From their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

Having harvested all the knowledge and wisdom we can from our mistakes and failures we should put them behind us and go ahead.

I think success has no rules but you can learn a great deal from failure.

It is the true nature of mankind to learn from mistakes not from example.

One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.

Through failure we learn a lesson in humility which is probably needed painful though it is.

From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.

Learn from the mistakes of others - you can't live long enough to make them all yourself.

Don't use the conduct of a fool as a precedent.

Wise men learn by other men's mistakes fools by their own.

A man is fortunate if he encounters living examples of vice as well as of virtue to inspire him.

Failure is that early morning hour of darkness which precedes the dawning of the day of success.

Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blossom in time and bear fruit throughout eternity.

The causes of mistakes are "I didn't know" "I didn't think" and "I didn't care."

Failures are divided into two classes: those who thought and never did and those who did and never thought.

A failure establishes only this that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

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.

We fail more often by timidity than by over-daring.

Losers have tons of variety. Champions take pride in just learning to hit the same old boring winners.

Lack of will power has caused more failures than lack of intelligence or ability.

The word fate ... is the refuge of every self-confessed failure.

Half the failures in life come from pulling one's horse in when he is leaping.

I cannot give you the formula for success but I can give you the formula for failure: try to please everybody.

If your project doesn't work look for the part that you didn't think was important.

The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.

How to succeed: Try hard enough. How to fail: Try too hard.

Most men fail not through lack of education but from lack of dogged determination from lack of dauntless will.

Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objects and principles.

We are less likely to fail if we measure with judgement our chances and our capabilities.

Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.

Failure is usually the line of least persistence.

Most people don't plan to fail they fail to plan.

Failure is not sweet but it need not be bitter.

The ultimate umpire of all things in life is - fact.

Disillusion is a natural stage that follows the holding of an illusion.

If any good results to a man from believing a lie it certainly comes from the honesty of his belief.

And what if I did run my ship aground oh still it was splendid to sail it!