Mistakes, Failures and the Eager Beaver
I had a few requests recently for thoughts about mistakes vs. failures. Here are a few quotes I was able to dig up.
Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough. ~Â Â - Og Mandino -
Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.  - Abraham Lincoln -
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 -
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.    - Elbert Hubbard -
If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative      - Woody Allen -
Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.  - William Saroyan -
In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.  - Anthony D’Angelo -
Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction.     - Al Bernstein -
Victory is sweetest when you’ve known defeat.  - Malcolm Forbes -
You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.    - Michael Johnson -
From success to failure is one step; from failure to success is a long road.     - Yiddish Proverb -
Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one a second time.     - Josh Billings -
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 -
Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.
     - James Anthony Froude -Â
Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.      - Robert Louis Stevenson -
The things that hurt us teach us.      - Author Unknown -Â
Being defeated is often only a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.      - Marilyn vos Savant -
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.     - Abraham Lincoln
Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.      - Zig Ziglar -
Mistakes are much more a sign of eager effort than ignorance. Repeating mistakes is much more a sign of eager ignorance than wise effort.  What is needful is people that are eager to learn, willing to change and ready to go! R U ?- EAGER - WISE - and READY TO GO!! ~ Kirk Weisler
November 17th, 2009 at 10:56 am
Your timing is perfect Kirk!! Hard mid-term today which had me in tears afterwards … but I gotta keep going! I’m 48 years old making a new career change and it’s been great going back to school learning something new…I’ve learned so so much in just 7 months…one mid-term shouldn’t hurt that badly since I’ve gotten A’s & B’s on everything else!
Thanks for a great T4D and your encouraging words every day! ELAINE
November 24th, 2009 at 1:09 pm
These are words of such power and the message is so important and true. I recently left a marriage that was wrong from day one, but kept going for 8 years, unfortunately a lot of pain and anguish was caused to my two daughters because of it. For this I ask my Lord for forgiveness and know that He gives it to me, but this is only because of the change I have had to make by leaving…actually turning my back to a way of life that I know is not how God wants me to live. The fear of what I know have to face from a finacial perspective is almost paralyzing, but I know that with faith and with constant desire to do God’s will, I know I will make it…..thank you again for the words.