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When we are confronted by failure and mistakes, we can leave them behind and go on with our lives. -- Benjamin Carson
Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures. -- Bernard Baruch
Expect to make some mistakes when you try new and different approaches. Sometimes colossal failures lead to spectacular successes. -- Harvey Mackay
Our failure to properly deal with Germany and Japan early cost the world dearly later on. We dare not make the same mistake with China. -- Steve Forbes
Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future. -- Swami Sivananda
Nixon's grand mistake was his failure to understand that Americans are forgiving, and if he had admitted error early and apologized to the country, he would have escaped. -- Bob Woodward
You don't learn from successes; you don't learn from awards; you don't learn from celebrity; you only learn from wounds and scars and mistakes and failures. And that's the truth. -- Jane Fonda
Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure. Do not mistake a child for his symptom. -- Erik Erikson
An optimist understands that life can be a bumpy road, but at least it is leading somewhere. They learn from mistakes and failures, and are not afraid to fail again. -- Harvey Mackay
Failure is a great teacher, and I think when you make mistakes and you recover from them and you treat them as valuable learning experiences, then you've got something to share. -- Steve Harvey
It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done. -- Samuel Smiles
We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery. -- Samuel Smiles
You can be discouraged by failure, or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes, make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success - on the far side of failure. -- Thomas J. Watson
You can't be afraid of the problem. Don't be afraid of failure; don't be afraid to make mistakes. Make sure you learn from each step; iterate, and stay as efficient as possible without being paralyzed by a difficult situation. -- Jon Oringer
The rise of China as a new power is another great challenge for the US. Our failure to properly handle Germany and Japan earlier in the 20th century cost us and the world dearly. We must not make this same mistake with China. -- Steve Forbes
Fact: From quitting smoking to skiing, we succeed to the degree we try, fail, and learn. Studies show that people who worry about mistakes shut down, but those who are relaxed about doing badly soon learn to do well. Success is built on failure. -- Martha Beck
I don't look at football as a violent, barbaric sport. It's a very spiritual sport, especially for someone facing the challenges during a game: the fear of failure, the fear of getting too big an ego, of making a mistake and everybody criticizing you. -- Troy Polamalu
You will learn more from your failures than your successes - so embrace those mistakes, as difficult as that sounds, and grow from them. When a project is successful, you're never really sure why, because so many elements come into play. However, when you fail, you always know why. That is how you learn and grow. -- Lynda Resnick
Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out. -- Benjamin Franklin
You are not a failure until you start blaming others for your mistakes -- John Wooden
There are no mistakes, save one: the failure to learn from a mistake. -- Robert Fripp
Mistakes will be made. Failure will occur. You pick yourself up and carry on. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching I've learned from making mistakes. -- Rick Pitino
Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes. -- Rick Pitino
Failure concentrates the mind wonderfully. If you don't make mistakes, you're not trying hard enough. -- Jasper Fforde
My best teachers were mess, failure, death, mistakes, and the people I hated, including myself. -- Anne Lamott
Dont be frightened of failure. It makes you stronger if you learn from your mistakes. -- Mark Lawrenson
The learning person looks forward to failure or mistakes. The worst problem in leadership is basically early success. -- Warren G. Bennis
Forgiving ourselves and learning from our inevitable mistakes transforms failure from a stumbling block into a stepping stone. -- L.R. Knost
Forget mistakes. Forget failure. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day -- Will Durant
There is no such thing as failure. Mistakes happen in your life to bring into focus more clearly who you really are. -- Oprah Winfrey
Even when you have doubts, take that step. Take chances. Mistakes are never a failure - they can be turned into wisdom. -- Cat Cora
People often avoid making decisions out of fear of making a mistake. Actually the failure to make decisions is one of life's biggest mistakes. -- Noah Weinberg
You learn from the mistakes you make and from the mistakes other people make. The truth is, you don't learn from success; you learn from failure. -- George Clooney
Start-ups make so many mistakes that the challenge to identify the root cause of a failure is tough. But believing in your own plan is probably the worst. -- Eric Ries

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