Quotes on Failure/Mistakes

"It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all."
- Edward De Bono

"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing."
- George Bernard Shaw

"If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate."
- Thomas Watson, Sr

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

"The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed."
- Richard B. Sheridan

"I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure."
- Anne Baxter

"Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have."
- Louis E. Boone

"Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it."
- William Durant

"It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something."
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm."
- Winston Churchill

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
- Eleanor Roosevelt

"All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes."
- Winston Churchill

"Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final."
- Roger W. Babson

"He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life."
- Muhammad Ali

"For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour."
- Mary Kay Ash

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