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.
April 15th, 2011 at 12:46 pm
With havin so much written content do you ever run into any issues of plagorism or copyright violation? My site has a lot of exclusive content I’ve either written myself or outsourced but it looks like a lot of it is popping it up all over the web without my authorization. Do you know any techniques to help prevent content from being ripped off? I’d really appreciate it.