2018, I moved to Ogun state and had to seek employment in a school within my vicinity. As a Lagos teacher, I was used to a vibrant class, swift answers and mushy acts by my students. So I resumed at my new work place with that fully charged energy. The first day got me confused. I was to teach the primary classes, I started my class and it was obvious these children were not following. They could neither understand what I was saying nor did they show any bit of interest. It was then I knew I had to start from the scratch. First, I had to create a connection. I wanted them to understand that I am first their friend. I needed to set the foundation that they can have both a friend and teacher in one. After that, I came down to their level. I made them feel and appreciate every little progress they made. I built up their interest in education. We worked together, applying several strategies I discovered and created, and within some month the growth was evident. Eureka is a book that cove
behind every failure there is a hidden beauty which is only discovered by those who are not defeated by their failures but rather take each failure as a stepping stone to a successful tomorrow.
the story of the two great men below shows that there is truly a beauty behind every failure, though this stories are just summaries but it would be of your advantage if you read more on them.
THOMAS EDDISON
the man who invented the electric light bulb failed 999 times before getting it right. While in school his teacher told him he was too stupid to learn anything, he was fired from his first two jobs for been non productive.
when a reporter asked him how he felt to fail 1,000 times he replied
failed maths while in school,even after school he was unsuccessful at businesses he tried doing, to express his misery he wrote his friend a letter saying
He was expelled from school and refused admission into Zurich polytechnic school. But he never for once gave up on himself and today everybody talks about his achievements.
Quotes
‘Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art
is knowing which ones to keep.’
— Scott Adams
‘All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve
is the direct result of his own thoughts.’
— James Allen
‘Failures are steps in the ladder of success.’
— James Allen
‘If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sure
sign that you’re not trying anything very innovative.’
— Woody Allen
‘Errors using inadequate data are much less than
those using no data at all.’
— Charles Babbage
‘Truth emerges more readily from error than from
confusion.’
— Francis Bacon
‘To try and fail is at least to learn; to fail to try is to
suffer the inestimable loss of what might have been.’
— Chester Barnard
‘We are all failures–at least, the best of us are.’
— James M. Barrie
‘Every tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail
again. Fail better.’
— Samuel Beckett
‘I made a wrong mistake.’
— Yogi Berra
‘An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes
which can be made, in a very narrow field.’
— Niels Bohr
‘Failure is the line of least persistence.’
— Alfred Brandt
‘It takes sixty-five thousand errors before you are
qualified to make a rocket.’
— Werhner von Braun
‘We can lick gravity, but the paperwork’s a bit
tougher.’
— Werhner von Braun
‘To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you
have to do is swear off having ideas.’
— Leo Burnett
‘Failure is the condiment which gives success its
flavour.’
— Truman Capote
‘Develop success from failures. Discouragement and
failure are two of the surest stepping stones to
success.’
— Dale Carnegie
‘Ninety-nine percent of failures come from people
who have the habit of making excuses.’
— George Washington Carver
‘In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.’
— Gaius Cassius
‘Success is never found. Failure is never fatal.
Courage is the only thing.’
— Winston Churchill
‘Success is going from failure to failure without losing
your enthusiasm.’
— Winston Churchill
‘Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot
persists in his error.’
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
‘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
‘Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks
learns quite as much from his failures as from his
successes.’
— John Dewey
‘The most important of my discoveries have been
suggested to me by failures.’
— Sir Humphry Davy
‘Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks
learns quite as much from his failures as from his
successes.’
— John Dewey
‘You may not realise it when it happens, but a kick in
the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.’
— Walt Disney
‘Results! Why man, I have gotten a lot of results. I
know several thousand things that won’t work.’
— Thomas Alva Edison
‘Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize
how close they were to success when they gave up.’
— Thomas Alva Edison
‘Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most
certain way to succeed is always to try just one more
time.’
— Thomas Alva Edison
‘Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show
you a failure.’
— Thomas Alva Edison
‘Just because something doesn’t do what you planned
it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless.’
— Thomas Alva Edison
‘The stakes are immense, the task colossal, the time
is short. But we may hope — we must hope — that
man’s own creation, man’s own genius, will not
destroy him.’
— Albert Einstein
‘Anyone who has never made a mistake has never
tried anything new.’
— Albert Einstein
‘The line between failure and success is so fine that
we scarcely know when we pass it - so fine that we
often are on the line and do not know it.’
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
‘Appear to know only this––never to fail nor fall.’
— Epictetus
‘To develop working ideas efficiently, I try to fail as
fast as I can.’
— Richard P. Feynman
‘Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.’
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
‘From error to error one discovers the entire truth.’
— Sigmund Freud
‘Failure is the opportunity to begin again more
intelligently.’
— Henry Ford
‘Freedom is not worth having if it does not include
the freedom to make mistakes.’
— Mahatma Gandhi
‘One of the reasons mature people stop learning is
that they become less and less willing to risk failure.’
— John W. Gardner
‘We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a
powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the
progressive narrowing of the personality and
prevents exploration and experimentation. There is
no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If
you want to keep on learning, you must keep on
risking failure—all your life.’
— John W. Gardner
‘A man may fail many times but he isn’t a failure until
he begins to blame somebody else.’
— J. Paul Getty
‘We’re all human and we all goof. Do things that may
be wrong, but do something.’
— Newt Gingrich
‘Success consists of getting up just one more time
than you fall.’
— Oliver Goldsmith
‘Our greatest glory consists not in never failing but in
rising every time we fall.’
— Oliver Goldsmith
‘No man ever became great or good except through
many and great mistakes.’
— William Gladstone
‘Success and failure are both difficult to endure.
Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication,
bullying, travel, meditation, medication, depression,
neurosis and suicide. With failure comes failure.’
— Joseph Heller
‘The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be
continually fearing you will make one.’
— Elbert Hubbard
‘A failure is a man who has blundered but is not able
to cash in the experience.’
— Elbert Hubbard
‘People who don’t make mistakes are no bloody good
to you at all.’
—John Harvey Jones
‘I have missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I
have lost almost 300 games. On 26 occasions I have
been entrusted to take the game-winning shot... and I
missed. I have failed over and over and over again in
my life. And that’s precisely why I succeed.’
— Michael Jordan
‘An expert is someone who knows some of the worst
mistakes that can be made in his subject and how to
avoid them.’
— Werner Heisenberg
‘If you hit every time, the target is either too big or
too near.’
— Tom Hirshfield
‘Every adversity, every failure, every heartache
carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.’
— Napoleon Hill
‘It is better to make a mistake than to do nothing.’
— Adolf Hitler
‘Many people dream of success. To me, success can
only be achieved through repeated failure and
introspection.’
— Soichiro Honda
‘Success is 99 percent failure.’
— Soichiro Honda
‘There is no failure except in no longer trying. There
is no defeat except from within, no really
insurmountable barrier save our own inherent
weakness of purpose.’
— Elbert Hubbard
‘A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able
to cash in on the experience.’
— Elbert Hubbard
‘In the great undertakings, there is glory, even in
failure.’
— Lee Iacocca
‘A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are
volitional and are the portals of discovery.’
— James Joyce
‘Do not think of today’s failure, but of the success that
may come tomorrow.’
— Helen Keller
‘Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.’
— John Fitzgerald Kennedy
‘Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve
greatly.’
— Robert Kennedy
‘The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired
employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train
him to experiment over and over and to keep on
trying and failing until he learns what will work.’
— Charles F. Kettering
‘Be bold. If you’re going to make an error, make a
doozy, and don’t be afraid to hit the ball.’
— Billie Jean King
‘The freedom to fail is vital if you’re going to succeed.
Most successful people fail from time to time, and it
is a measure of their strength that failure merely
propels them into some new attempt at success.’
— Michael Korda
‘An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to
fail.’
— Edwin Land
‘The greatest accomplishment is not in never failing,
but in rising again after you fall.’
— Vincent Lombardi
‘Not failure, but low aim, is crime.’
— James Russell Lowell
‘To bear failure with courage is the best proof of
character that anyone can give.’
— W. Somerset Maugham
‘Only a mediocre write is always at his best.’
— W. Somerset Maugham
‘Fear of failure is at least as common as the desire for
success. In fact, if harnessed properly, it can be the
energy that drives the wheel.’
— Mark McCormack
‘He who has never failed somewhere, that man
cannot be great.’
— Herman Melville
‘Every failure teaches a man something, to wit, that
he will probably fail again.’
— H. L. Menken
‘Defeat doesn’t finish a man–quit does. A man is not
finished when he is defeated. He’s finished when
when he quits.’
— Richard Nixon
‘An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to
fail.’
— Isaac Newton
‘Why do eight out of ten new consumer products fail?
Sometimes because they are too new. The first cold
cereals were rejected by consumers. More often new
products fail because they are not new enough.’
— David Ogilvy
‘Give me the fruitful error any time, full of seeds,
bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your
sterile truth for yourself.’
— Vilfredo Pareto
‘Success is how high you bounce when you hit
bottom.’
— George S. Patton
‘Most people give up just when they’re about to
achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They
give up at the last minute of the game, one foot from
a winning touchdown.’
— Ross Perot
‘Failures are like skinned knees–painful, but
superficial.’
— Ross Perot
‘If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there
is always another chance for you. What we call failure
is not the falling down, but the staying down.’
— Mary Pickford
‘A man should never be ashamed to admit that he
has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other
words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.’
— Alexander Pope
‘You always pass failure on the way to success.’
— Dan Quayle
‘You always pass failure on the way to success.’
— Mickey Rooney
‘It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to
succeed.’
— Theodore Roosevelt
‘Far better it is to dare mighty things to win glorious
triumphs even though checkered by failure…than to
rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much
nor suffer much because they live in a grey twilight
that knows not victory nor defeat.’
— Theodore Roosevelt
‘The great secret of success is to go through life as a
man who never gets used to failing.’
— Albert Schweitzer
‘What would you attempt to do if you knew you could
not fail?’
— Robert Schuller
‘When I was a young man I observed that nine out of
ten things I did were a failure. I didn’t want to be a
failure, so I did ten times more work’.
— George Bernard Shaw
‘A life spent making mistakes is not only more
honourable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing’.
— George Bernard Shaw
‘A failure is not always a mistake; it may simply be the
best one can do under the circumstances. The real
mistake is to stop trying.
— B. F. Skinner
‘He who never made a mistake never made a
discovery.’
— Samuel Smiles
‘We learn wisdom from failure much more than from
success; we often find out what will do by finding out
what will not do; and probably he who never made a
mistake never made a discovery.’
— Samuel Smiles
‘Failure is not the enemy, but a life-changing
experience. It is a human experience, and it prepares
the way for us to grow and transform our lives.’
— Sobonfu Som�
‘If I had thought about it, I wouldn’t have done the
experiment. The literature was full of examples that
said you can’t do this.’
— Spencer Silver (inventor of Post-it adhesive)
‘Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue
to fail in good spirits.’
— Robert Louis Stevenson
‘Give me the young man who has brains enough to
make a fool of himself.’
— Robert Louis Stevenson
‘It is only through failure and through experiment
that we learn and grow.’
— Isaac Stern
‘I have learned throughout my life as a composer
chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false
assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of
wisdom and knowledge.’
— Igor Stravinsky
‘In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is
better it should go first than last.’
— Hugh Walpole
‘If you want to increase your success rate, double
your failure rate.’
— Thomas J. Watson, Snr
‘Success is on the far side of failure.’
— Thomas J. Watson, Snr
‘Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop
even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by
force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself.
Man must learn to think of himself as a limited and
dependent being; and only suffering teaches him
this.’
— Simone Weil
‘Experience is the name everyone gives to their
mistakes.’
— Oscar Wilde
‘Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well
be your own, instead of someone else's.’
— Billy Wilder
‘Failure is not a crime. Failure to learn from failure is.’
— Walter Wriston
‘Companies fail when they continue doing for too
long that which made them successful in the past.’
— John Young
‘Failure is just another part of the culture of
innovation. Accept it and become stronger.’
— Albert Yu
You should never be scared of failing if you want to succeed in life.
Behind every present successful man is a past failure.
Failure begat success
before a success story comes a failure story
people might mock you today for your failure but it would be the same reason for your celebration tomorrow if you walk on it.
#Jesustibab
the story of the two great men below shows that there is truly a beauty behind every failure, though this stories are just summaries but it would be of your advantage if you read more on them.
THOMAS EDDISON
the man who invented the electric light bulb failed 999 times before getting it right. While in school his teacher told him he was too stupid to learn anything, he was fired from his first two jobs for been non productive.when a reporter asked him how he felt to fail 1,000 times he replied
i didnt fail 1,000 times, the light bulb was an invention with 1,000 stepsALBERT EINSTEIN
failed maths while in school,even after school he was unsuccessful at businesses he tried doing, to express his misery he wrote his friend a letter sayingi am now the most miserable man living. if what i feel were equally distributed to the whole human nation family, there would not be one cheerful face on earth.he didnt speak until he was 4 years old and couldn't read until he was seven. his teachers described him as MENTALLY SLOW, UNSOCIABLE, AND ADRIFT FOREVER IN FOOLISH DREAMS.
He was expelled from school and refused admission into Zurich polytechnic school. But he never for once gave up on himself and today everybody talks about his achievements.
Quotes
‘Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art
is knowing which ones to keep.’
— Scott Adams
‘All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve
is the direct result of his own thoughts.’
— James Allen
‘Failures are steps in the ladder of success.’
— James Allen
‘If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sure
sign that you’re not trying anything very innovative.’
— Woody Allen
‘Errors using inadequate data are much less than
those using no data at all.’
— Charles Babbage
‘Truth emerges more readily from error than from
confusion.’
— Francis Bacon
‘To try and fail is at least to learn; to fail to try is to
suffer the inestimable loss of what might have been.’
— Chester Barnard
‘We are all failures–at least, the best of us are.’
— James M. Barrie
‘Every tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail
again. Fail better.’
— Samuel Beckett
‘I made a wrong mistake.’
— Yogi Berra
‘An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes
which can be made, in a very narrow field.’
— Niels Bohr
‘Failure is the line of least persistence.’
— Alfred Brandt
‘It takes sixty-five thousand errors before you are
qualified to make a rocket.’
— Werhner von Braun
‘We can lick gravity, but the paperwork’s a bit
tougher.’
— Werhner von Braun
‘To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you
have to do is swear off having ideas.’
— Leo Burnett
‘Failure is the condiment which gives success its
flavour.’
— Truman Capote
‘Develop success from failures. Discouragement and
failure are two of the surest stepping stones to
success.’
— Dale Carnegie
‘Ninety-nine percent of failures come from people
who have the habit of making excuses.’
— George Washington Carver
‘In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.’
— Gaius Cassius
‘Success is never found. Failure is never fatal.
Courage is the only thing.’
— Winston Churchill
‘Success is going from failure to failure without losing
your enthusiasm.’
— Winston Churchill
‘Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot
persists in his error.’
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
‘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
‘Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks
learns quite as much from his failures as from his
successes.’
— John Dewey
‘The most important of my discoveries have been
suggested to me by failures.’
— Sir Humphry Davy
‘Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks
learns quite as much from his failures as from his
successes.’
— John Dewey
‘You may not realise it when it happens, but a kick in
the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.’
— Walt Disney
‘Results! Why man, I have gotten a lot of results. I
know several thousand things that won’t work.’
— Thomas Alva Edison
‘Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize
how close they were to success when they gave up.’
— Thomas Alva Edison
‘Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most
certain way to succeed is always to try just one more
time.’
— Thomas Alva Edison
‘Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show
you a failure.’
— Thomas Alva Edison
‘Just because something doesn’t do what you planned
it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless.’
— Thomas Alva Edison
‘The stakes are immense, the task colossal, the time
is short. But we may hope — we must hope — that
man’s own creation, man’s own genius, will not
destroy him.’
— Albert Einstein
‘Anyone who has never made a mistake has never
tried anything new.’
— Albert Einstein
‘The line between failure and success is so fine that
we scarcely know when we pass it - so fine that we
often are on the line and do not know it.’
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
‘Appear to know only this––never to fail nor fall.’
— Epictetus
‘To develop working ideas efficiently, I try to fail as
fast as I can.’
— Richard P. Feynman
‘Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.’
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
‘From error to error one discovers the entire truth.’
— Sigmund Freud
‘Failure is the opportunity to begin again more
intelligently.’
— Henry Ford
‘Freedom is not worth having if it does not include
the freedom to make mistakes.’
— Mahatma Gandhi
‘One of the reasons mature people stop learning is
that they become less and less willing to risk failure.’
— John W. Gardner
‘We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a
powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the
progressive narrowing of the personality and
prevents exploration and experimentation. There is
no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If
you want to keep on learning, you must keep on
risking failure—all your life.’
— John W. Gardner
‘A man may fail many times but he isn’t a failure until
he begins to blame somebody else.’
— J. Paul Getty
‘We’re all human and we all goof. Do things that may
be wrong, but do something.’
— Newt Gingrich
‘Success consists of getting up just one more time
than you fall.’
— Oliver Goldsmith
‘Our greatest glory consists not in never failing but in
rising every time we fall.’
— Oliver Goldsmith
‘No man ever became great or good except through
many and great mistakes.’
— William Gladstone
‘Success and failure are both difficult to endure.
Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication,
bullying, travel, meditation, medication, depression,
neurosis and suicide. With failure comes failure.’
— Joseph Heller
‘The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be
continually fearing you will make one.’
— Elbert Hubbard
‘A failure is a man who has blundered but is not able
to cash in the experience.’
— Elbert Hubbard
‘People who don’t make mistakes are no bloody good
to you at all.’
—John Harvey Jones
‘I have missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I
have lost almost 300 games. On 26 occasions I have
been entrusted to take the game-winning shot... and I
missed. I have failed over and over and over again in
my life. And that’s precisely why I succeed.’
— Michael Jordan
‘An expert is someone who knows some of the worst
mistakes that can be made in his subject and how to
avoid them.’
— Werner Heisenberg
‘If you hit every time, the target is either too big or
too near.’
— Tom Hirshfield
‘Every adversity, every failure, every heartache
carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.’
— Napoleon Hill
‘It is better to make a mistake than to do nothing.’
— Adolf Hitler
‘Many people dream of success. To me, success can
only be achieved through repeated failure and
introspection.’
— Soichiro Honda
‘Success is 99 percent failure.’
— Soichiro Honda
‘There is no failure except in no longer trying. There
is no defeat except from within, no really
insurmountable barrier save our own inherent
weakness of purpose.’
— Elbert Hubbard
‘A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able
to cash in on the experience.’
— Elbert Hubbard
‘In the great undertakings, there is glory, even in
failure.’
— Lee Iacocca
‘A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are
volitional and are the portals of discovery.’
— James Joyce
‘Do not think of today’s failure, but of the success that
may come tomorrow.’
— Helen Keller
‘Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.’
— John Fitzgerald Kennedy
‘Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve
greatly.’
— Robert Kennedy
‘The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired
employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train
him to experiment over and over and to keep on
trying and failing until he learns what will work.’
— Charles F. Kettering
‘Be bold. If you’re going to make an error, make a
doozy, and don’t be afraid to hit the ball.’
— Billie Jean King
‘The freedom to fail is vital if you’re going to succeed.
Most successful people fail from time to time, and it
is a measure of their strength that failure merely
propels them into some new attempt at success.’
— Michael Korda
‘An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to
fail.’
— Edwin Land
‘The greatest accomplishment is not in never failing,
but in rising again after you fall.’
— Vincent Lombardi
‘Not failure, but low aim, is crime.’
— James Russell Lowell
‘To bear failure with courage is the best proof of
character that anyone can give.’
— W. Somerset Maugham
‘Only a mediocre write is always at his best.’
— W. Somerset Maugham
‘Fear of failure is at least as common as the desire for
success. In fact, if harnessed properly, it can be the
energy that drives the wheel.’
— Mark McCormack
‘He who has never failed somewhere, that man
cannot be great.’
— Herman Melville
‘Every failure teaches a man something, to wit, that
he will probably fail again.’
— H. L. Menken
‘Defeat doesn’t finish a man–quit does. A man is not
finished when he is defeated. He’s finished when
when he quits.’
— Richard Nixon
‘An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to
fail.’
— Isaac Newton
‘Why do eight out of ten new consumer products fail?
Sometimes because they are too new. The first cold
cereals were rejected by consumers. More often new
products fail because they are not new enough.’
— David Ogilvy
‘Give me the fruitful error any time, full of seeds,
bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your
sterile truth for yourself.’
— Vilfredo Pareto
‘Success is how high you bounce when you hit
bottom.’
— George S. Patton
‘Most people give up just when they’re about to
achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They
give up at the last minute of the game, one foot from
a winning touchdown.’
— Ross Perot
‘Failures are like skinned knees–painful, but
superficial.’
— Ross Perot
‘If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there
is always another chance for you. What we call failure
is not the falling down, but the staying down.’
— Mary Pickford
‘A man should never be ashamed to admit that he
has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other
words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.’
— Alexander Pope
‘You always pass failure on the way to success.’
— Dan Quayle
‘You always pass failure on the way to success.’
— Mickey Rooney
‘It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to
succeed.’
— Theodore Roosevelt
‘Far better it is to dare mighty things to win glorious
triumphs even though checkered by failure…than to
rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much
nor suffer much because they live in a grey twilight
that knows not victory nor defeat.’
— Theodore Roosevelt
‘The great secret of success is to go through life as a
man who never gets used to failing.’
— Albert Schweitzer
‘What would you attempt to do if you knew you could
not fail?’
— Robert Schuller
‘When I was a young man I observed that nine out of
ten things I did were a failure. I didn’t want to be a
failure, so I did ten times more work’.
— George Bernard Shaw
‘A life spent making mistakes is not only more
honourable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing’.
— George Bernard Shaw
‘A failure is not always a mistake; it may simply be the
best one can do under the circumstances. The real
mistake is to stop trying.
— B. F. Skinner
‘He who never made a mistake never made a
discovery.’
— Samuel Smiles
‘We learn wisdom from failure much more than from
success; we often find out what will do by finding out
what will not do; and probably he who never made a
mistake never made a discovery.’
— Samuel Smiles
‘Failure is not the enemy, but a life-changing
experience. It is a human experience, and it prepares
the way for us to grow and transform our lives.’
— Sobonfu Som�
‘If I had thought about it, I wouldn’t have done the
experiment. The literature was full of examples that
said you can’t do this.’
— Spencer Silver (inventor of Post-it adhesive)
‘Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue
to fail in good spirits.’
— Robert Louis Stevenson
‘Give me the young man who has brains enough to
make a fool of himself.’
— Robert Louis Stevenson
‘It is only through failure and through experiment
that we learn and grow.’
— Isaac Stern
‘I have learned throughout my life as a composer
chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false
assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of
wisdom and knowledge.’
— Igor Stravinsky
‘In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is
better it should go first than last.’
— Hugh Walpole
‘If you want to increase your success rate, double
your failure rate.’
— Thomas J. Watson, Snr
‘Success is on the far side of failure.’
— Thomas J. Watson, Snr
‘Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop
even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by
force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself.
Man must learn to think of himself as a limited and
dependent being; and only suffering teaches him
this.’
— Simone Weil
‘Experience is the name everyone gives to their
mistakes.’
— Oscar Wilde
‘Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well
be your own, instead of someone else's.’
— Billy Wilder
‘Failure is not a crime. Failure to learn from failure is.’
— Walter Wriston
‘Companies fail when they continue doing for too
long that which made them successful in the past.’
— John Young
‘Failure is just another part of the culture of
innovation. Accept it and become stronger.’
— Albert Yu
You should never be scared of failing if you want to succeed in life.
Behind every present successful man is a past failure.
Failure begat success
before a success story comes a failure story
people might mock you today for your failure but it would be the same reason for your celebration tomorrow if you walk on it.
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