It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
-- Theodore Roosevelt quotes (American 26th US President (1901-09), 1858-1919)

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

When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always be worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad that they have to get better.
-- Malcolm Forbes

Whoever does not try, does not learn.
-- Jewish Saying

Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
-- Confucius

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills (1929 - )

"The man who can't make a mistake can't make anything."
-- Abraham Lincoln

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
-- Unknown

If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.
-- Dan Quayle (1947 - )

Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.
-- John Keats (1795 - 1821)

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 (1893 - 1979)

Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal.
-- Mike Ditka (1939 - )

Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.
-- Samuel McChord Crothers

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
-- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
-- Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931)

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.
-- William Saroyan (1908 - 1981)

If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others?
-- Dolores Huerta

He that makes war without many mistakes has not made war very long.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
-- Norman Cousins (1912 - 1990)

There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
-- Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.
-- Vernon Sanders Law

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, to can become great.'
-- Mark Twain

Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.
-- Dr. Dale E. Turner

No matter how well you perform, there's always somebody of intelligent opinion who thinks it's lousy.
-- Laurence Olivier

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
-- Rodin

Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.
-- Ralph W. Sockman

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.
-- Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919)

What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first step to something better.
-- Wendell Phillips (1811 - 1884)

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.
-- Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)

Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
-- Al Franken, "Oh, the Things I Know", 2002

Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.
-- Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)

Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.
-- Cullen Hightower

No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar.
-- Donald Foster

Assert your right to make a few mistakes. If people can't accept your imperfections, that's their fault.
-- Dr. David M. Burns

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
-- Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)

It's always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile.
-- Garry Marshall, 'Wake Me When It's Funny'

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
-- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)

When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power. -- Hugh White (1773 - 1840)

Life is a journey, and what makes it a miserable or a happy one is how you master the skills you need to live with your losses.
-- Archibald Hard

Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.
-- James A. Froude (1818 - 1894)

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
-- Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)

If I had my life to live over... I'd dare to make more mistakes next time.
-- Nadine Stair

An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr (1885 - 1962)

Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
-- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892, Act III

Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
-- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?
-- Peter McWilliams, Life 101

To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
-- Peter McWilliams, Life 101

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams (1957 - ), 'The Dilbert Principle'

Each day of your life, as soon as you open your eyes in the morning, you can square away for a happy and successful day. It's the mood and the purpose at the inception of each day that are the important facts in charting your course for the day. We can always square away for a fresh start, no matter what the past has been. It's today that is the paramount problem always. Yesterday is but history.
-- George Matthew Adams

There's no better way to waste time in life than to dwell on the past. You should learn from the past with as much objectivity as possible, so that you can modify your future actions -- and then move on.
-- Bonnie Dunbar

As you grow older, you'll find the only things you regret are the things you didn't do.
-- Zachary Scott

Things without all remedy should be without regard; what's done is done.
-- William Shakespeare from MacBeth

People have to face regrets. Becoming mature means learning to accept what you cannot change, facing unresolved sorrows and learning to love life as it really happens, not as you would have it happen.
-- Barbara Sher

I learned that good judgment comes from experience and that experience grows out of mistakes.
-- General Omar N. Bradley

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
-- General George Patton Jr

The test of success is not what you do when your on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
-- General George S. Patton, Jr

Let me win, but if i cannot win let me brave in the attempt.
-- Special Olympics.
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