There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.
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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There are men who never err, because they never propose anything rational.
Do not say before hand what you are going to do; for if you fail, you will be laughed at.
Every man is in some sort a failure to himself. No one ever reaches the heights to which he aspires.
He ploughs in sand, and sows against the wind,
That hopes for constant love of woman kind.