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There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.
— Thomas W. Higginson
When we 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.
— Katherine Mansfield
I think laughter may be a form of courage.... As humans we sometimes stand tall and look into the sun and laugh  and I think we are never more brave than when we do that.
— Linda Ellerbee
Keep your sense of humor. There's enough stress in the rest of your life to let bad shots ruin a game you're supposed to enjoy.
— Amy Alcott
Delicate humor is the crowning virtue of the saints.
— Evelyn Underhill
Humor is my sword and my shield. It protects me. You can open a door with humor and drive a truck right through.
— Alan Simpson
Laughter can be more satisfying than honor  more precious than money  more heart-cleansing than prayer.
— Harriet Rochlin
Laughter is ever young  whereas tragedy  except the very highest of all  quickly becomes haggard.
— Margaret Sackville
A chuckle a day may not keep the doctor away  but it sure does make those times in life's waiting room a little more bearable.
— Anne Wilson Schaef
Humor brings insight and tolerance.
— Agnes Repplier
A sense of humor can help you overlook the unattractive  tolerate the unpleasant  cope with the unexpected  and smile through the unbearable.
— Moshe Waldoks
One loses many laughs by not laughing at oneself.
— Sara Jeannette Duncan
To jealousy  nothing is more frightful than laughter.
— Francoise Sagan
Humor is an affirmation of dignity  a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.
— Romain Gary
Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.
— Max Eastman
Wrinkles should only indicate where smiles have been.
— Ethel Barrymore
Humor is a means of obtaining pleasure in spite of the distressing effects that interface with it.
— Sigmund Freud
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it  you might as well laugh about it now.
— Marie Osmond
Humor is just another defense against the universe.
— Mel Brooks
Humor is the healthy way of feeling "distance" between one's self and the problem  a way of standing off and looking at one's problems with perspective.
— Rollo May
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs  jolted by every pebble in the road.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
— Colette
If I had no sense of humor  I should long ago have committed suicide.
— Mahatma Gandhi
A sense of humor judges one's actions and the actions of others from a wider reference ... it pardons shortcomings  it consoles failure. It recommends moderation.
— Thornton Wilder
Were it not for my little jokes  I could not bear the burdens of this office.
— Abraham Lincoln
Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here.
— Harry S. Truman
Humor is an attitude. It's a way of looking at life and of telling others how you feel about what's happening around you.
— Gene Perret
Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.
— Philip Butler
Comedy is tragedy plus time.
— Carol Burnett
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.
— William Saroyan
Everyday ... life confronts us with new problems to be solved which force us to adjust our old programs accordingly.
— Dr. Ann Faraday
What can any of us do with his talent but try to develop his vision  so that through frequent failures we may learn better what we have missed in the past.
— William Carlos Williams
There are more serious problems in life than financial ones  and I've had a lot of those. I've been broke before  and will be again. Heartbroke? That's serious. Lose a few bucks? That's not.
— Willie Nelson
A life of reaction is a life of slavery  intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action  not reaction.
— Rita Mae Brown
Coming events cast their shadows before.
— Thomas Campbell
One eye-witness is of more weight than ten hearsays.
— Plautus
Facts are stubborn things.
— George Smollett
Some circumstantial evidence is very strong  as when you find a trout in the milk.
— Henry David Thoreau
Evil events from evil causes spring.
— Aristophanes
Evil and good are God's right hand and left.
— Francis Bailey
Woe unto them that call evil good  and good evil.
— Bible
Of two evils choose the least.
— Erasmus
What is evil?  -  Whatever springs from weakness.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Never throw mud. You may miss your mark  but you must have dirty hands.
— Joseph Parker
Be not overcome of evil  but overcome evil with good.
— Romans
Evil often triumphs  but never conquers.
— Joseph Roux
The evil that men do lives after them  The good is oft interred with their bones.
— William Shakespeare
As sure as God is good  so surely there is no such thing as necessary evil.
— Robert Southey
There is no more reason to believe that man descended from some inferior animal than there is to believe that a stately mansion has descended from a small cottage.
— W. J. Bryan
Some call it Evolution  And others call it God.
— W. H. Carruth
When you were a tadpole and I was a fish in the Palaozoic time And side by side in the sluggish tide  we sprawled in the ooze and slime.
— Langdon Smith
None preaches better than the ant  and she says nothing.
— Benjamin Franklin
Example is more efficacious than precept.
— Samuel Johnson
Excellent things are rare.
— Plato
If a man has good corn  or wood  or boards  or pigs to sell  or can make better chairs or knives  crucibles  or church organs  than anybody else  you will find a broad  hardbeaten road to his house  though it be in the woods.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie  for an excuse is a lie guarded.
— Alexander Pope
And oftentimes  excusing of a fault Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse  -  As patches  set upon a little breach  Discredit more in hiding of the fault Than did the fault before it was so patched.
— William Shakespeare
I have known him (Micawber) come home to supper with a flood of tears  and a declaration that nothing was now left but a jail  and go to bed making a calculation of the expense of putting bow-windows to the house  "in case anything turned up " which was his favorite expression.
— Charles Dickens
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experience.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let weakness learn meekness.
— A. C. Swinburne
Experience has two things to teach: The first is that we must correct a great deal  the second that we must not correct too much.
— Eugene Delacroix
Experience is in the fingers and the head. The heart is inexperienced.
— Henry David Thoreau
God will not look you over for medals  degrees or diplomas  but for scars!
— Elbert Hubbard
I embrace emerging experience. I participate in discovery. I am a butterfly. I am not a butterfly collector. I want the experience of the butterfly.
— William Stafford
Many of the insights of the saint stem from his experience as a sinner.
— Eric Hoffer
Deep experience is never peaceful.
— Henry James
Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.
— Oscar Wilde
Experience  which destroys innocence  also leads one back to it.
— James Baldwin
To most men  experience is like the stern lights of a ship  which illumine only the track it has passed.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The life of the law has not been logic  it has been experience.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
A proverb is no proverb to you till life has illustrated it.
— John Keats
Today is yesterday's pupil.
— Thomas Fuller
All that I know I learned after I was thirty.
— Georges Clemenceau
Life is like playing a violin solo in public  and learning the instrument as one goes on.
— Samuel Butler
What you really value is what you miss  not what you have.
— Jorge Luis Borges
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
— George Bernard Shaw
Men are wise in proportion  not to their experience  but to their capacity for experience.
— George Bernard Shaw
Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
— Aldous Huxley
To a great experience one thing is essential - an experiencing nature.
— Walter Bagehot
Good judgement comes from experience  and experience - well  that comes from poor judgement.
— Anonymous
When choosing between two evils  I always like to take the one I've never tried before.
— Mae West
Age is only a number  a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time.
— Bernard Baruch
Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
— Franklin P. Jones
Experience is the worst teacher  it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
— Vernon Law
From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
— Sigmund Freud
Strange how few After all's said and done  the things that are Of moment.
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
Any man worth his salt has by the time he is forty-five accumulated a crown of thorns  and the problem is to learn to wear it over one ear.
— Christopher Morley
Not to transmit an experience is to betray it.
— Elie Wiesel
Motives and purposes are in the brain and heart of man. Consequences are in the world of fact.
— Henry Geaye
Experience is the best of schoolmasters  only the school-fees are heavy.
— Thomas Carlyle
A burnt child dreads the fire.
— English proverb
Experience is the extract of suffering.
— Arthur Helps
I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided  and that is the lamp of experience.
— Patrick Henry
One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
— James Russell Lowell
Experience is the name men give to their follies or their sorrows.
— Alfred de Musset
Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?
— Voltaire
An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less.
— Nicholas Murray
The shoemaker makes a good shoe because he makes nothing else.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The eyes believe themselves  the ears believe other people.
— German proverb
Drink to me only with thine eyes  And I will pledge with mine.
— Ben Jonson
He had a face like a benediction.
— Miguel de Cervantes
Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships  And burnt the topless towers of Ilium? Sweet Helen  make me immortal with a kiss. -  Her lips suck forth my soul  see  where it flies! - 
— Christopher Marlowe
A cheerful face is nearly as good for an invalid as healthy weather.
— Benjamin Franklin
The worst of faces still is human.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
"What is your fortune  my pretty maid?" "My face is my fortune  sir " she said.
— Nursery Rhyme
Lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us.
— Bible
A countenance more in sorrow than in anger.
— William Shakespeare
God has given you one face  and you make yourselves another.
— William Shakespeare
I grow daily to honor facts more and more  and theory less and less.
— Thomas Carlyle
There are no eternal facts  as there are no absolute truths.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Every fact that is learned becomes a key to other facts.
— E. I. Youmans
But to him who tries and fails and dies  I give great honor and glory and tears.
— Joaquin Miller
How are the mighty fallen!
— Anonymous
Here's to the men who lose! What though their work be e'er so nobly plann'd And watched with zealous care  No glorious halo crowns their efforts grand -  Contempt is Failure's share!
— G. L. Scarborough
Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.
— Daniel Webster
Imagine a congress of eminent celebrities such as More  Bacon  Grotius  Pascal  Cromwell  Bossuet  Montesquieu  Jefferson  Napoleon  Pitt  etc. They would be an Encyclopedia of Errors.
— Lord Acton
Flops are a part of life's menu  and Eve never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
— Rosalind Russell
Every man's got to figure to get beat sometime.
— Joe Louis
Who thinks it just to be judged by a single error?
— Beryl Markham
Man errs as long as he struggles.
— Johann von Goethe
Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.
— Sophia Loren
Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.
— Phyllis Therous
Be aware that young people have to be able to make their own mistakes and that times change.
— Gina Shapira
The best brewer sometimes makes bad beer.
— German proverb
We must somehow get comfortable with the reality of periodic failure. ... Like a trip to the dentist  the thought of occasional reverses may not make us tingle with joyful anticipation  but then again  it's not the end of the world.
— Sam Collins
The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.
— Voltaire
All men are liable to error  and most men are ... by passion or interest  under temptation to it.
— John Locke
Show me a person who has never made a mistake and Ell show you somebody who has never achieved much.
— Joan Collins
He only is exempt from failures who makes no effort.
— Richard Whately
Only he who does nothing makes no mistakes.
— French proverb
The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Life is not life unless you make mistakes.
— Joan Collins
We all choke  and the man who says he doesn't choke is lying like hell. We all leak oil.
— Lee Trevino
He who has never failed somewhere  that man cannot be great.
— Herman Melville
He is always right who suspects that he makes mistakes.
— Spanish proverb
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
— Bishop WC. Magee
A good marksman may miss.
— Thomas Fuller
He that has much to do will do something wrong.
— Samuel Johnson
For a just man falleth seven times  and riseth up again.
— Bible
To make no mistake is not in the power of man  but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
— Plutarch
All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection.
— William Faulkner
The fellow who never makes a mistake takes his orders from one who does.
— Herbert B. Prochnow
Accept that all of us can be hurt  that all of us can - and surely will at times - fail. Other vulnerabilities  like being embarrassed or risking love  can be terrifying  too. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst  take the risk.
— Dr. Joyce Brothers
The greatest general is he who makes the fewest mistakes.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
War is a series of catastrophes that results in victory.
— Georges Clemenceau
Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
— Anonymous
A man finds he has been wrong at every stage of his career  only to deduce the astonishing conclusion that he is at last entirely right.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
One loss is good for the soul. Too many losses are not good for the coach.
— Knute Rockne
In all science  error precedes the truth  and it is better it should go first than last.
— Hugh Walpole
In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses  which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.
— Bill Vaughan
Virtually nothing comes out right the first time. Failures  repeated failures  are finger posts on the road to achievement. The only time you don't want to fail is the last time you try something.... One fails forward toward success.
— Charles F. Kettering
A clever man commits no minor blunders.
— Johann von Goethe
Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.
— Edward Dowden
No man ever progressed to greatness and goodness but through great mistakes.
— Frederick W. Robertson
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  who knows the great enthusiasms  the great devotions  and 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 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
The errors of great men are venerable because they are more fruitful than the truths of little men.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
There is something distinguished about even his failures  they sink not trivially  but with a certain air of majesty  like a great ship  its flags flying  full of holes.
— George Jean Nathan
If all else fails  immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
In a great mistake.
— Nathalia Crane
Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
— J. Robert Oppenheimer
If you have made mistakes  even serious mistakes  there is always another chance for you.
— Mary Pickford
Life  like war  is a series of mistakes  and he is best who wins the most splendid victories by the retrieval of mistakes.
— Frederick W. Robertson
A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.
— Confucius
The great virtue of man lies in his ability to correct his mistakes and to continually make a new man of himself.
— Wang Yang-Ming
It is only error in judgement to make a mistake  but it shows infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.
— Christian Bovee
It is human to err  but it is devilish to remain willfully in error.
— Saint Augustine
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes  but quickly to see how to make them good.
— Bertolt Brecht
Peole do think that if they avoid the truth  it might change to something better before they have to hear it.
— Marsha Norman
We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until... we have stopped saying "It got lost " and say  "I lost it."
— Sydney J. Harris
Ah  how steadily do they who are guilty shrink from reproof!
— Amelia Jenks Bloomer
I've arrived at this outermost edge of my life by my own actions. Where I am is thoroughly unacceptable. Therefore  I must stop doing what I have been doing.
— Alice Koller
Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures.
— Bernard M. Baruch
I believe we are solely responsible for our choices  and we have to accept the consequences of every deed  word  and thought throughout our lifetime.
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He does not say "My men were beaten " he says  "I was beaten."
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The most considerable difference I note among men is not in their readiness to fall into error  but in their readiness to acknowledge these inevitable lapses.
— Thomas Henry Huxley
It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes. It takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.
— Jessamyn West
Whenever at an accusation blind rage burns up within us  the reason is that some arrow has pierced the joints of our harness. Behind our shining armour of righteous indignation lurks a convicted and only half-repentant sinner ... [and] we may be almost sure some sharp and bitter grain of truth lurks within it  and the wound is best probed.
— Jane Harrison
The fault  dear Brutus  is not in our stars  but in ourselves.
— William Shakespeare
There's folks 'ud stand on their heads and then say the fault was i' their boots.
— George Eliot
Admitting error clears the score  and proves you wiser than before.
— Arthur Guiterman
Mistakes fail in their mission of helping the person who blames them on the other fellow.
— Henry S. Haskins
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.
— Bernard M. Baruch
I have made mistakes  but I have never made the mistake of claiming that I never made one.
— James Gordon Bennett
The man who can own up to his error is greater than he who merely knows how to avoid making it.
— Cardinal de Retz
A man may fall many times  but he won't be a failure until he says that someone pushed him.
— Elmer G. Letterman
Do not be afraid of mistakes  providing you do not make the same one twice.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Fool me once  shame on you  fool me twice  shame on me.
— Chinese proverb
There is no reason to repeat bad history.
— Eleanor Holmes Norton
I try to extract something positive from [every] situation  even if it's just learning not to make the same mistake twice.
— Claudia Schiffer
He who is shipwrecked twice is foolish to blame the sea.
— Publilius Syrus
He who is shipwrecked the second time cannot lay the blame on Neptune.
— English proverb
He that's cheated twice by the same man is an accomplice with the cheater.
— Thomas Fuller
If you would not have affliction visit you twice  listen at once to what it teaches.
— James Burgh
You can beat the Bear once  but never the same way twice.
— John McKay
Any man can make mistakes  but only an idiot persists in his error.
— Cicero
There is nothing wrong with making mistakes. Just don't respond with encores.
— Anonymous
The road to wisdom? Well  it's plain and simple to express: Err  and err  and err again. But less  and less  and less.
— Piet Hein
I made a mistake today  I made a mistake yesterday. I think it's ... very important to ignore the negative.
— Jerry Rubin
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 right  and what have you got to lose? Even if it's a disaster  you've tried  you've learned something  you've had an adventure. And that doesn't mean you can't do it again.
— Edward McCabe
A peacefulness follows any decision  even the wrong one.
— Rita Mae Brown
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.
— Rosalynn Carter
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.
— Katherine Mansfield
If I lose  I'll walk away and never feel bad.... Because I did all I could  there was nothing more to do.
— Joe Frazier
A man must learn to forgive himself.
— Arthur Davison Ficke
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.
— Rosalynn Carter
Who would not rather trust and be deceived?
— Eliza Cook
Forget mistakes. Forget failure. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day.
— Will Durant
Forget your mistakes  but remember what they taught you.
— Dorothy Galyean
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.
— Mary Pickford
Failure is a disappointment but not defeat.
— Jeanne Robertson
Memories are the key not to the past  but to the future.
— Corrie ten Boom
Failure is delay  but not defeat. It is a temporary detour  not a dead-end street.
— William A. Ward
Finite to fail  but infinite to venture.
— Emily Dickinson
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.
— Cynthia Heimel
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 absolute  then it would be a disaster  but as long as it's only temporary you can just go and achieve almost anything.
— Jerry Delia Femina
Failure is an event  never a person.
— William D. Brown
It is better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too late.
— Marilyn Moats Kennedy
I think and think for months  for years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
— Albert Einstein
Take chances  make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.
— Mary Tyler Moore
Take risks. You can't fall off the bottom.
— Barbara Proctor
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.
— George Cukor
You must have long-range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short-range failures.
— Charles C. Noble
Life is a series of relapses and recoveries.
— George Ade
We learn courageous action by going forward whenever fear urges us back. A little boy was asked how he learned to skate. "By getting up every time I fell down " he answered.
— David Seabury
If I had to live my life over again  I'd dare to make more mistakes next time.
— Nadine Stair
Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.
— Herbert Kaufman
Entrepreneurs average 3.8 failures before final success. What sets the successful ones apart is their amazing persistence. There are a lot of people out there with good and marketable ideas  but pure entrepreneurial types almost never accept defeat.
— Lisa M. Amos
I don't accept defeat as final. Only death is final - and even then I hope for a reprieve.
— Phil Gramm
Don't let a kick in the ass stop you. It's how you cope that says what you are.
— George Cukor
What is to be got at to make the air sweet  the ground good under the feet  can only be got at by failure  trial  again and again and again failure.
— Sherwood Anderson
They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has  but I notice he usually blunders forward.
— Thomas A. Edison
Some of the biggest failures I ever had were successes.
— Pearl S. Buck
Not all who seem to fail have failed indeed. Not all who fail have therefore worked in vain. There is no failure for the good and brave.
— Archbishop Trench
No honest work of man or woman "fails"  it feeds the sum of all human action.
— Michelene Wandor
Defeat in doing right is nevertheless victory.
— Frederick W. Robertson
The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.
— George Eliot
Sometimes what you want to do has to fail so you won't.
— Margueritte Harmon Bro
There are defeats more triumphant than victories.
— Michel de Montaigne
Nothing succeeds like failure.
— Rebecca West
Because a fellow has failed once or twice  or a dozen times  you don't want to set him down as a failure until he's dead or loses his courage -  and that's the same thing.
— George Horace Lorimer
What we have most to fear is failure of the heart.
— Sonia Johnson
No man is a failure who is enjoying life.
— William Feather
You are beaten to earth? Well  well  what's that? Come up with a smiling face  it's nothing against you to fall down flat  but to lie there - that's disgrace.
— Edmund Vance Cooke
He alone fails who gives up and lies down.
— Ralph Waldo Trine
Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes.
— Lewis E. Lawes
Failure is not in losing  but in no longer believing that winning is worthwhile.
— Anonymous
He's no failure. He's not dead yet.
— W. L. George
Inside of a ring or out  ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong.
— Muhammad Ali
It ain't no disgrace for a man to fall  but to lie there and grunt is.
— Josh Billings
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
If a man has a talent and cannot use it  he has failed. If he has a talent and uses only half of it  he has partly failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it  he has gloriously succeeded  and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.
— Thomas Wolfe
Not failure  but low aim  is a crime.
— Ernest Holmes
There is only one real failure in life that is possible  and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
— Frederic W. Farrar
Perhaps the only real failure is that implying waste  a conscious and flagrant non-use or misuse of ability.
— Joseph H. Odell
There are two kinds of failures: The man who will do nothing he is told  and the man who will do nothing else.
— Dr. Perle Thompson
Men do not fail  they stop trying.
— Elihu Root
Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.
— Mary Kay Ash
It is a very dangerous thing to have an idea that you will not practice.
— Phyllis Bottome
If you risk nothing  then you risk everything.
— Geena Davis
Men must try and try again.
— Lawson Purdy
In the past  few women have tried and even fewer have succeeded.
— Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
A mistake is not a failure  but evidence that someone tried to do something.
— Anonymous
Man must strive  and in striving  he must err.
— Johann von Goethe
The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy  inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.
— Dr. Joyce Brothers
Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.
— George Eliot
The sight of a cage is only frightening to the bird that has once been caught.
— Rachel Field
Your success depends on your ability to dream and follow through on those dreams.
— Jinger Heath
Keep trying. Take care of the small circle around you. When you have succeeded with them  then move outwards  one small step at a time.
— Audrey Hepburn
It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes.
— Flannery O'Connor
There might be false starts and do-overs. You are entitled to experiment before you find your calling.
— Jane Pauley
Life is the only real counselor. Wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.
— Edith Wharton
The only failure which lacks dignity is the failure to try.
— Malcolm F. MacNeil
To know that one has never really tried - that is the only death.
— Marie Dressier
We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we can do ... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
— Cybil Shepherd
If you're not failing  you're not trying anything.
— Woody Allen
If you play it safe in life  you've decided that you don't want to grow anymore.
— Shirley Hufstedler
Those who try and fail are much wiser than those who never try for fear of failure.
— Andre Bustanoby
A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed - I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.
— Georges Clemenceau
To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and fall.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
— Helen Keller
Inaction  contrary to its reputation for being a refuge  is neither safe nor comfortable.
— Madeleine Kunin
They fail  and they alone  who have not striven.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Failure is something made only by those who fail to dare  not by those who dare to fail.
— Louis Binstock
You don't always win your battles  but it's good to know you fought.
— Marjorie Holmes
Many a man never fails because he never tries.
— Norman MacEwan
Good judgment comes from experience  and experience comes from poor judgment.
— Anonymous
Life is very interesting  if you make mistakes.
— Georges Carpentier
Mistakes and errors are the discipline through which we advance.
— William Ellery Channing
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
— George Bernard Shaw
It is defeat that turns bone to flint  it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle  it is defeat that makes men invincible. Do not then be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Besides the practical knowledge which defeat offers  there are important personality profits to be taken. Defeat strips away false values and makes you realize what you really want. It stops you from chasing butterflies and puts you to work digging gold.
— William M. Marston
No experiment is ever a complete failure. It can always be used as a bad example.
— Paul Dickson
Failure is the foundation of success  and the means by which it is achieved.
— Lao-Tzu
There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.
— Max Beerbohm
Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God.
— Charles Horton Cooley
It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands  new undertakings  and new forms of expression.
— Eric Hoffer
Let us not be needlessly bitter  certain failures are sometimes fruitful.
— E. M. Cioran
If I win several tournaments in a row  I get so confident I'm in a cloud. A loss gets me eager again.
— Chris Evert Lloyd
There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you.
— Woody Hayes
Failure is only an opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
— Henry Ford
Disappointments are to the soul what the thunder-storm is to the air.
— J. C. F. von Schiller
The wisest person is not the one who has the fewest failures  but the one who turns failures to best account.
— Richard R. Grant
One of the advantages of defeat in life - maybe the main advantage - is that it provides an excuse for change. Defeat... invariably leads to new adventures.
— James Reston
Failure is God's own tool for carving some of the finest outlines in the character of his children.
— Thomas Hodgkin
I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down.
— Allen H. Neuharth
From their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
— Plutarch
Having harvested all the knowledge and wisdom we can from our mistakes and failures  we should put them behind us and go ahead.
— Edith Johnson
I think success has no rules  but you can learn a great deal from failure.
— Jean Kerr
There are no mistakes  no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from.
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
We will be victorious if we have not forgotten how to learn.
— Rosa Luxemburg
It is the true nature of mankind to learn from mistakes  not from example.
— Fred Hoyle
The psychotherapist learns little or nothing from his successes. They mainly confirm him in his mistakes  while his failures  on the other hand  are priceless experiences in that they not only open up the way to a deeper truth  but force him to change his views and methods.
— Carl Jung
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 afterward carefully avoid.
— John Keats
We need to teach a highly educated person that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently  for failing is one of the greatest arts of the world.
— Charles F. Kettering
When a man is pushed  tormented  defeated  he has a chance to learn something  he has been put on his wits  on his manhood  he has gained the facts  learned his ignorance  is cured of the insanity of conceit  has got moderation and real skill.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves  no matter how unpleasant  are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn  whatever steps we take  they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go.
— Richard Bach
Failure is a school in which the truth always grows strong.
— Henry Ward Beecher
The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose.
— John McEnroe
It's good to fail now and again - you learn a lot more out of failure than you do out of success.
— Ian Hunter
One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
— John W. Gardner
Through failure  we learn a lesson in humility which is probably needed  painful though it is.
— Bill W.
A failure is a man who has blundered  but is not able to cash in the experience.
— Elbert Hubbard
Like success  failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude  failure is a learning experience  a rung on the ladder  a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.
— W Clement Stone
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
From the errors of others  a wise man corrects his own.
— Publilius Syrus
Learn from the mistakes of others -  you can't live long enough to make them all yourself.
— Martin Vanbee
The entire history of science is a progression of exploded fallacies.
— Ayn Rand
Don't use the conduct of a fool as a precedent.
— Talmud
Wise men learn by other men's mistakes  fools by their own.
— H. G. Bohn
Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.
— Publilius Syrus
A man is fortunate if he encounters living examples of vice  as well as of virtue  to inspire him.
— Brendan Francis
The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it  so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.
— Elbert Hubbard
Failure is that early morning hour of darkness which precedes the dawning of the day of success.
— Leigh Mitchell Hodges
People fail forward to success.
— Mary Kay Ash
Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blossom in time  and bear fruit throughout eternity.
— Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
The causes of mistakes are "I didn't know"  "I didn't think"  and "I didn't care."
— Henry H. Buckley
Failures are divided into two classes: those who thought and never did  and those who did and never thought.
— John Charles Salak
A failure establishes only this  that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
— Christian Bovee
Self-distrust is the cause of most of our failures. They are the weakest  however strong  who have no faith in themselves or their own powers.
— Christian Bovee
Defeat is a thing of weariness  of incoherence  of boredom.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.
— Brendan Francis
We fail more often by timidity than by over-daring.
— David Grayson
Losers have tons of variety. Champions take pride in just learning to hit the same old boring winners.
— Vic Braden
Lack of will power has caused more failures than lack of intelligence or ability.
— Flower A. Newhouse
The word fate ... is the refuge of every self-confessed failure.
— Andrew Soutar
The man who fails because he aims astray  or because he does not aim at all  is to be found everywhere.
— Frank Swinnerton
Half the failures in life come from pulling one's horse in when he is leaping.
— A. W. Hare
I cannot give you the formula for success  but I can give you the formula for failure: try to please everybody.
— Herbert Bayard Swope
If your project doesn't work  look for the part that you didn't think was important.
— Arther Bloch
Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
— George Washington Carver
One who fears failure limits his activities.
— Henry Ford
The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
— Edward Simmons
We have forty million reasons for failure  but not a single excuse.
— Rudyard Kipling
How to succeed: Try hard enough. How to fail: Try too hard.
— Malcolm Forbes
Most men fail  not through lack of education  but from lack of dogged determination  from lack of dauntless will.
— Orison Swett Marden
Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objects and principles.
— Jawaharlal Nehru
We are less likely to fail if we measure with judgement our chances and our capabilities.
— Agnes Repplier
Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.
— Robert Half
Failure is usually the line of least persistence.
— Wilfred Beaver
Most people don't plan to fail  they fail to plan.
— John L. Beckley
Failure is not sweet  but it need not be bitter.
— Anonymous
The ultimate umpire of all things in life is - fact.
— Agnes C. Laut
I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.
— Sophocles
Disillusion is a natural stage that follows the holding of an illusion.
— Susan Shaughnessy
If any good results to a man from believing a lie  it certainly comes from the honesty of his belief.
— Margaret Collier Graham
And what if I did run my ship aground  oh  still it was splendid to sail it!
— Henrik Ibsen
Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.
— Rosalind Russell
It is not easy  but you have to be willing to make mistakes. And the earlier you make those mistakes  the better.
— Jane Cahill Pfeiffer
If you're gonna be a failure  at least be one at something you enjoy.
— Sylvester Stallone
Who would not rather flounder in the fight than not have known the glory of the fray?
— Richard Hovey
Better a false belief than no belief at all.
— George Eliot
The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
— Abraham Lincoln
Three failures denotes uncommon strength. A weakling had not enough grit to fail thrice.
— Minna Antrim
Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.
— Aristophanes
All is fair in love and war.
— English proverb
What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
— English proverb
Nothing can be truer than fairy wisdom. It is as true as sunbeams.
— Douglas Jerrold
When the first baby laughed for the first time  the laugh broke into a million pieces  and they all went skipping about. That was the beginning of fairies.
— Sir James Matthew Barrie
Fairies  black  grey  green  and white  You moonshine revellers  and shades of night.
— William Shakespeare
Spirit is the real and eternal  matter is the unreal and the temporal.
— Mary Baker Eddy
Faith sees the invisible  believes the unbelievable  and receives the impossible.
— Corrie ten Boom
For the facts that make up the world need the non-factual as a vantage point from which to be perceived.
— Ingeborg Bachmann
Faith is nothing at all tangible. ... It is simply believing God  and like sight  it is nothing apart from its object. You might as well shut your eyes and look inside  and see whether you have sight  as to look inside to discover whether you have faith.
— Hannah Whitall Smith
Faith is the daring of the soul to go farther than it can see.
— William Newton Clark
Spirituality leaps where science cannot yet follow  because science must always test and measure  and much of reality and human experience is immeasurable.
— Starhawk
Some things have to be believed to be seen.
— Ralph Hodgson
Faith is like radar that sees through the fog-the reality of things at a distance that the human eye cannot see.
— Corrie ten Boom
Faith sees the invisible  believes the incredible and receives the impossible.
— Anonymous
A believer  a mind whose faith is consciousness  is never disturbed because other persons do not yet see the fact which he sees.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
We walk by faith  not by sight.
— Bible
Faith is to believe what we do not see  the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.
— Saint Augustine
Because you cannot see him  God is everywhere.
— Yasunari Kawabata
Sorrow looks back  worry looks around  faith looks up.
— Guideposts
You have to believe in gods to see them.
— Hopi Indian saying
Faith declares what the senses do not see  but not the contrary of what they see.
— Blaise Pascal
Faith has to do with things that are not seen  and hope with things that are not in hand.
— Saint Thomas Aquinas
Faith is the capacity of the soul to perceive the abiding ... the invisible in the visible.
— Leo Baeck
Deep faith eliminates fear.
— Lech Walesa
A red-hot belief in eternal glory is probably the best antidote to human panic that there is.
— Phyllis Bottome
Our faith triumphant o'er our fears.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Let nothing disturb you  nothing frighten you  all things are passing  God never changes.
— Teresa of Avila
Fear imprisons  faith liberates  fear paralyzes  faith empowers  fear disheartens  faith encourages  fear sickens  faith heals  fear makes useless  faith makes serviceable.
— Harry Emerson Fosdick
Fear knocked at the door. Faith answered. And lo  no one was there.
— Anonymous
I knew without a glimmer of doubt that all things in the universe were connected by a living truth that would not relent its continuing search for wholeness until every form of life was united.
— Lynn V. Andrews
Unity  not uniformity  must be our aim. We attain unity only through variety. Differences must be integrated  not annihilated  not absorbed.
— Mary Parker Follett
By virtue of love is the lover transformed in the beloved and the beloved transformed in the lover.
— Saint Angela of Foligno
Spiritual love is a position of standing with one hand extended into the universe and one hand extended into the world  letting ourselves be a conduit for passing energy.
— Christina Baldwin
One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others  by means of love  friendship  indignation and compassion.
— Simone de Beauvoir
Patience with others is Love  Patience with self is Hope  Patience with God is Faith.
— Adel Bestavros
God is universal  confined to no spot  defined by no dogma  appropriated by no sect.
— Mary Baker Eddy
Trying to do good to people without God's help is no easier than making the sun shine at midnight. You discover that you've got to abandon all your own preferences  your own bright ideas  and guide souls along the road our Lord has marked out for them. You mustn't coerce them into some path of your own choosing.
— Therese of Lisieux
All our acts have sacramental possibilities.
— Freya Stark
We must have infinite faith in each other.
— Henry David Thoreau
As contagion of sickness makes sickness  contagion of trust can make trust.
— Marianne Moore
Faith in our associates is part of our faith in God.
— Charles Horton Cooley
Those who trust us educate us.
— George Eliot
He who has no faith in others shall find no faith in them.
— Lao-Tzu
Don't lose faith in humanity: think of all the people in the United States who have never played you a single nasty trick.
— Elbert Hubbard
You can't leave humanity out. If you didn't have humanity  you wouldn't have anything.
— Alice Neel
I plunged into the job of creating something from nothing. ... Though I hadn't a penny left  I considered cash money as the smallest part of my resources. I had faith in a living God  faith in myself  and a desire to serve.
— Mary McLeod Bethune
Faith in oneself... is the best and safest course.
— Michelangelo
Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.
— Erich Fromm
I never really look for anything. What God throws my way comes. I wake up in the morning and whichever way God turns my feet  I go.
— Pearl Bailey
In order to experience everyday spirituality  we need to remember that we are spiritual beings spending some time in a human body.
— Barbara De Angelis
We must move from asking God to take care of the things that are breaking our hearts  to praying about the things that are breaking His heart.
— Margaret Gibb
Peace ... was contingent upon a certain disposition of the soul  a disposition to receive the gift that only detachment from self made possible.
— Elizabeth Goudge
You must never lose the awareness that in yourself you are nothing  you are only an instrument. An instrument is nothing until it is lifted.
— Katheryn Hulme
It's very reassuring and spiritual to be connected with something larger than yourself and the inside of your own head.
— Joan Osborne
With all this wide and beautiful creation before me  the restless soul longs to enjoy its liberty and rest beyond its bound.
— Teresa of Avila
The country in which I live is not my native country  that lies elsewhere  and it must always be the center of my longings.
— Therese of Lisieux
The great majority of men use their own short-sighted ideas as a yardstick for measuring the divine omnipotence.
— Therese of Lisieux
Faith is the centerpiece of a connected life. It allows us to live by the grace of invisible strands. It is a belief in a wisdom superior to our own. Faith becomes a teacher in the absence of fact.
— Terry Tempest Williams
Faith doesn't wait until it understands  in that case it wouldn't be faith.
— Vance Havner
Your faith is what you believe  not what you know.
— John Lancaster Spalding
That's the thing about faith. If you don't have it you can't understand it. And if you do  no explanation is necessary.
— Major Kira Nerys