There have been errors in the administration of the most enlightened men.
Failure Quotes
Nothing here is flagged as misattributed. Shakespeare, the judge Lord Ellenborough, Ben Carson and Frederick William Robertson lead, and the sourced lines are all older and drier than the usual motivational material. Wilde, in Lady Windermere’s Fan (1892), says experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes, and in 1894 that ambition is the last refuge of the failure. Burns’s Scots Musical Museum (1787) has the bleakest of the three: now all is done that men can do, and all is done in vain.
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Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before they’re forty.
The fellow who never makes a mistake takes his orders from one who does.
In the lexicon of youth, which fate reserves
For a bright manhood, there is no such word
As "fail".
For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.
Failure makes success so much sweeter, and allows you to thumb your nose at the crowds.
There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.