Quotes and Sayings about Failures & Mistakes

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

It's just that... I just think that some things are meant to be broken. Imperfect. Chaotic. It's the universe's way of providing contrast, you know? There have to be a few holes in the road. It's how life is.

Sarah Dessen in The Truth About Forever

Life Beginning Scars

Once you have accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you.

Self-Confidence

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

Michael Jordan

Ambition Basketball

Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful.

Annette Funicello

Life Perfection

You can never make the same mistake twice. Because the second time you make it, it's not a mistake, it's a choise.

Decisions

Anyone who has never made a mistake, has never tried anything new.

Albert Einstein

Examined from another angle, your faults and weaknesses can be weapons.

Nagisa Shiota in Assassination Classroom

Weaknesses

It is only when you fall that you learn whether you can fly.

Flemeth in Dragon Age

Flying

I make mistakes
Just like everybody else
But instead of letting go of it
I can't forgive myself

Middle Class Rut - New Low

Deep Quotes

Mistakes are not shackles that halt one from stepping forward. Rather, they are that which sustain and grow one's heart.

Mavis Vermillion in Fairy Tail

There's a benefit about losing: you get to learn from your mistakes.

Megamind in Megamind

Experience Learning

'Destiny, chance, fate, fortune -they're all just ways of claiming your success without claiming your failures.'
- Gerrard of the Weatherlight

Magic: The Gathering () - Pendrell Drake

Happiness Fate & Destiny Chance & Randomness

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Napoléon Bonaparte

Enemies & Opponents

Sometimes our best decisions are the ones that don't make any sense at all.

Ted Mosby in How I Met Your Mother - Season 5 Episode 20

Decisions

Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave you.

Colossians - 3, 13

Forgiveness & Mercy

Every decision you make is a mistake.

Edward Dahlberg

Decisions

The difference between the novice and the master is that the master has failed more times than the novice has tried.

Koro-Sensei in Assassination Classroom

Teachers Motivation

Whenever you leave behind failure, you're doing good. If you think everything you've done is great, you're probably dumb.

Louis C. K.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

Oscar Wilde

Experience

Most important thing in life is learning how to fall.

Jeannette Walls in Half Broke Horses

Beginning

I have not failed. I've just found 10.000 ways that won't work.

Thomas Edison

Success

'Of course I do,' he said. 'Failing sucks. But it's better than the alternative.'
'Which is?'
'Not even trying.' Now he did look at me, straight on.
'Life's short, you know?'

Sarah Dessen in Along for the Ride

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

Samuel Beckett

Experience Beginning

Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

Oscar Wilde

Experience

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

Henry Ford

Learning

Sometimes, even when you know something's a mistake, you gotta make it anyway.

Ted Mosby in How I Met Your Mother

Fate & Destiny

A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

B. F. Skinner

Beginning Motivation

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.

Joanne K. Rowling

Taking action Motivation

I like flaws. I think they make things interesting.

Sarah Dessen in The Truth About Forever

Human beings have an almost unlimited capacity for self-delusion. We can justify any amount of sadness if it fits our own particular standard of reality.

John Hawks

Fate & Destiny Criminal Minds

I have no confidence in a man whose faults you cannot see.

Edward Dahlberg

You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

Edwin Louis Cole

Motivation

The failures that we have are sometimes expensive educations.

Ashton Kutcher

You can learn more from the lows than the highs. The highs are great but the lows make you really look at things in a different way and want to improve. Every player will have both in their careers and I have, but what you get is that experience which is so important to perform at your best.

Wayne Rooney

Success Beginning

Celebrate your successes. Find some humor in your failures.

Sam Walton

Success

The greatest teacher failure is.

Master Yoda in Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi

Learning

'You want to talk about failure?' He looked up at me, meeting my eyes. 'Try being the one who was driving. Who got to live.'

Sarah Dessen in Along for the Ride

Guilt

The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Foolishness Intelligence

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

Truman Capote

Success

I didn't fear failure. I expected failure.

Amy Tan

If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.

Tallulah Bankhead

Bury your mistakes!

Rupert Murdoch

Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something.

Morihei Ueshiba

Success

In order to achieve anything you must be brave enough to fail.

Kirk Douglas

Courage

Success isn't permanent and failure isn't fatal.

Mike Ditka

Success

I don't make mistakes. I make prophecies which immediately turn out to be wrong.

Murray Walker

Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable.

Joe Biden

A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.

John Burroughs

Losing & Defeat

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A good player knows how to win the game, a good character knows how to lose it, while smiling.

Character Playing Losing & Defeat

Doesn't matter how tough we are. Trauma always leaves a scar. It follows us home, it changes our lives, Trauma messes everybody up, but maybe that's the point: All the pain and the fear and the crap. Maybe going through all of that is what keeps us moving forward, it's what pushes us. Maybe we have to get a little messed up, before we can step up.

Alex Karev in Grey's Anatomy - Season 5

Beginning Scars

In the beginning of a jorney, no one knows what to expect. They might have a vague idea the road ahead could be rough. That's what makes new beginnings so exciting. You don't know what will happen until it's over.

Sam Gardner in Atypical - Season 4

Beginning

Success is all about having the confidence to shoot for something even if it seems impossible.

Usher

Success

And if you think tough men are dangerous, wait until you see what weak men are capable of.

Jordan Peterson in 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

Strength Weaknesses

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