mistakes on Failure

One of the reasons failure can be so crushing is that we set goals of success, instead of improvement and learning.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.

When people fail, we are inclined to find fault with them, but if you look more closely, you will find that God had some particular truth for them to learn, which the trouble they are in is to teach t...

Tom Watson, Sr., is the man who founded IBM. You can imagine the money, the investments, the experiments, this man, and his multi-billion dollar company have made through the years. Once, years ago, w...

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

A stumble may prevent a fall.

Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction.

Error, by force of contrast, enhances the triumph of Truth.

When you repeat a mistake, it is not a mistake anymore: it is a decision.

If a mistake is not a stepping stone, it is a mistake.

We cannot afford to forget any experience, not even the most painful.

Once you have missed the first buttonhole you’ll never manage to button up.

Mistakes were quite possibly made by the administrations in which I served.

“If one wants to be active, one mustn’t be afraid to do something wrong sometimes, not afraid to lapse into some mistakes. To be good — many people think that they’ll achieve it by doing no harm — and...

A professional carpet-layer stepped back to admire his customary flawless work. While surveying the installed carpet, he reached into his shirt pocket for a cigarette and realized the pack was missing....

Once described a second marriage as the “triumph of hope over experience

"A step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction."

Perhaps the history of the errors of mankind, all things considered, is more valuable and interesting than that of their discoveries. Truth is uniform and narrow; it constantly exists, and does not se...

It is human to err, it is devilish to remain willfully in error.

To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

There is something to be said for every error; but, whatever may be said for it, the most important thing to be said about it is that it is erroneous.

I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn’t explain away afterwards.

A person that never climbs will never fall.

Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive ner...

To err isn’t human after all. To err is, cosmically speaking, an anomaly. That’s why we can’t bear the imperfection in ourselves and in others.

Mistakes were made in communicating to the public and customers about the ingredients in our French fries and hash browns.

We know mistakes were made.

To be told we are wrong is sometimes an embarrassment, even a humiliation. We want to run and hide our heads in shame. But there are times when finding out we are wrong is sudden and immediate relief,...

“A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.”