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"If I ran a school, I'd give the average grade to the ones who gave me all the right answers, for being good parrots. I'd give the top grades to those who made a lot of mistakes and told me about them, and then told me what they learned from them." Buckminster Fuller 4.0625 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"There is no failure except in no longer trying." Elbert Hubbard 4.90909090909091 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it; so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it." Elbert Hubbard 3.75 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one." Elbert Hubbard 4.25 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"You're never beaten until you admit it." George Patton 4.85714285714286 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything." Theodore Roosevelt 4.33333333333333 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also." Carl Jung 4.33333333333333 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out." Al Gore 4 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated...it is finished when it surrenders." Ben Stein 5 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Men are born to succeed, not fail." Henry Thoreau 3.72727272727273 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress." Calvin Coolidge 3 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"The baby rises to its feet, takes a step, is overcome with triumph and joy - and falls flat on its face. It is a pattern for all that is to come! But learn from the bewildered baby. Lurch to your feet again. You'll make the sofa in the end." Pam Brown 5 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"I don't think there's anything to be afraid of. Failure brings great rewards -- in the life of an artist." Quentin Tarantino 4.83333333333333 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"To err is human. To blame it on somebody else is even more human." Arthur Bloch 4.75 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"The greatness comes not when things always go good for you. But the greatness comes when you're really tested, when you take some knocks, some disappointments when sadness comes. Because only if you've been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain." Richard Nixon 4.64 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment." Jim Horning 4.75438596491228 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment." Henry Thoreau 4.75 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Expect people to be better than they are; it helps them to become better. But don't be disappointed when they are not; it helps them to keep trying." Merry Browne 4.66666666666667 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"What you have lost will not be returned to you. It will always be lost. You're left with only your scars to mark the void. All you can choose to do is go on or not. But if you go on, it's knowing you carry your scars with you." Charles Frazier 4 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Errors are inevitable. The mark of character is not refusing to recognize them, but acknowledging them and taking responsibility." Andrew Sullivan 4.3 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote


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