Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
“Why did he do it?" "For the same reason everyone makes mistakes. He fell in love.” — Stephanie Perkins Copy Share Image
When there is pleasure, there is often abandon, and mistakes are made. — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
Perhaps I've committed some technical and tactical mistakes and I'll look to correct them. — Gennaro Gattuso Copy Share Image
Part of the failing of mainstream history has been a reverential air often appended to the colonial era, underpinned by a rose-tinted… — Dawn Foster Copy Share Image
He that never changes his opinion never corrects mistakes and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today. — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
The greatest secret of winners is that failure inspires winning; thus, they are not afraid of losing. — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
By the end of the first decade of writing, I considered myself a confirmed failure in the eyes of the world. — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
The knowledge that you have emerged wiser and stronger from setbacks means that you are, ever after, secure in your ability to… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Sometimes I wonder whether anything is learned in conservation, or whether the big NGOs are for ever destined to follow a circular… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
Every cop isn't a bad cop just like every NFL player that makes a mistake, we're not all bad guys. — Kenny Stills Copy Share Image
The best way to learn about yourself listening to advice from others to the fullest sincerely to fix our mistakes from making… — Popi Nurani Copy Share Image
“Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in… — Dominic Mann Copy Share Image
“The Romans construed Jesus Chris’s crucifixion as a defeat, but what do we have today? Christianity triumphed. Jesus Christ never betrayed himself,… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
Most people have a hard time confronting their weaknesses in a really straightforward, evidence-based way. They also have problems speaking frankly to… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
“Yes, that dream ultimately failed, but I learned so much. Mostly tiny things, but it only takes a spark to light a… — Carrie Hope Fletcher Copy Share Image
To be forgotten is to sleep in peace with the undisturbed myriads, no longer subject to the chills and heats, the blasts,… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
“Whatever may be the cause of this crisis, it is certain that it is a spiritual one, since it represents the failure… — Christopher Henry Dawson Copy Share Image
“Mother Teresa's missionaries were able to embrace people—complete with all sorts of weaknesses, failures, foibles, strengths, and faiths—and work with them wholeheartedly.… — Eric Greitens Copy Share Image
The worst time was 1983. Love and life and everything went wrong. I reached absolute rock bottom. I saw the Minotaur at… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image