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If you can’t accept losing, you can’t win.
Vince Lombardi1913–1970
Errors are inevitable. The mark of character is not refusing to recognize them, but acknowledging them and taking responsibility.
Andrew Sullivanborn 1963
- Responsibility
A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.
Elbert Hubbard1856–1915The Roycraft Dictionary and Book of Epigrams (1923)
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 Coolidge1872–1933
The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything.
Theodore Roosevelt1858–1919
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
JPJohn Powell1645–1713The Secret of Staying in Love (1990), p. 85.
If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
Henry David Thoreau1817–1862
To err is human. To blame it on somebody else is even more human.
ABArthur Blochborn 1948
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.
PBPam Brown
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.
CFCharles Frazierborn 1950
Men are born to succeed, not fail.
Henry David Thoreau1817–1862
- Success
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.
MBMerry Browne
No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.
Al Goreborn 1948Concession speech (2000)
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 Steinborn 1944
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 Hubbard1856–1915
- Success