377 quotes found
“He who is shipwrecked twice is foolish to blame the sea.”
“He who is shipwrecked the second time cannot lay the blame on Neptune.”
“He that's cheated twice by the same man is an accomplice with the cheater.”
“If you would not have affliction visit you twice listen at once to what it teaches.”
“You can beat the Bear once but never the same way twice.”
“Any man can make mistakes but only an idiot persists in his error.”
“There is nothing wrong with making mistakes. Just don't respond with encores.”
“The road to wisdom? Well it's plain and simple to express: Err and err and err again. But less and less and less.”
“I made a mistake today I made a mistake yesterday. I think it's ... very important to ignore the negative.”
“The biggest quality in successful people I think is an impatience with negative thinking. ... How many opportunities come along? If you wait for the right one that's wrong because it may never be...”
“A peacefulness follows any decision even the wrong one.”
“If you don't accept failure as a possibility you don't set high goals you don't branch out you don't try - you don't take the risk.”
“When we can begin to take our failures non-seriously it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.”
“If I lose I'll walk away and never feel bad.... Because I did all I could there was nothing more to do.”
“A man must learn to forgive himself.”
“You must accept that you might fail then if you do your best and still don't win at least you can be satisfied that you've tried.”
“Forget mistakes. Forget failure. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day.”
“Forget your mistakes but remember what they taught you.”
“Supposing you have tried and failed again and again. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose for this thing that we call "failure" is not the falling down but the staying down.”
“Failure is a disappointment but not defeat.”
