377 quotes found
“I have known men who could see through the motivations of others with the skill of a clairvoyant only to prove blind to their own mistakes. I have been one of those men.”
“Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.”
“I have made mistakes but I have never made the mistake of claiming that I never made one.”
“The man who can own up to his error is greater than he who merely knows how to avoid making it.”
“A man may fall many times but he won't be a failure until he says that someone pushed him.”
“Do not be afraid of mistakes providing you do not make the same one twice.”
“Memories are the key not to the past but to the future.”
“Failure is delay but not defeat. It is a temporary detour not a dead-end street.”
“Finite to fail but infinite to venture.”
“When in doubt make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell leap.”
“Failure really isn't terrible if you can say to yourself hey I know I'm gonna be successful at what I want to do someday. Failure doesn't become a big hangup then because it's only temporary. If ...”
“Failure is an event never a person.”
“It is better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too late.”
“I think and think for months for years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.”
“Take chances make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.”
“Take risks. You can't fall off the bottom.”
“When it goes wrong you feel like cutting your throat but you go on. You don't let anything get you down so much that it beats you or stops you.”
“You must have long-range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short-range failures.”
“Life is a series of relapses and recoveries.”
“If I had to live my life over again I'd dare to make more mistakes next time.”
