Quotes About Progress

We learn courageous action by going forward whenever fear urges us back. A little boy was asked how he learned to skate. "By getting up every time I fell down," he answered.

What is to be got at to make the air sweet, the ground good under the feet, can only be got at by failure, trial, again and again and again failure.

They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward.

Sometimes what you want to do has to fail so you won't.

A mistake is not a failure, but evidence that someone tried to do something.

Man must strive, and in striving, he must err.

Keep trying. Take care of the small circle around you. When you have succeeded with them, then move outwards, one small step at a time.

If you're not failing, you're not trying anything.

If you play it safe in life, you've decided that you don't want to grow anymore.

Those who try and fail are much wiser than those who never try for fear of failure.

Life is very interesting, if you make mistakes.

Mistakes and errors are the discipline through which we advance.

No experiment is ever a complete failure. It can always be used as a bad example.

Failure is the foundation of success, and the means by which it is achieved.

Failure is only an opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

The wisest person is not the one who has the fewest failures, but the one who turns failures to best account.

One of the advantages of defeat in life - maybe the main advantage - is that it provides an excuse for change. Defeat... invariably leads to new adventures.

Having harvested all the knowledge and wisdom we can from our mistakes and failures, we should put them behind us and go ahead.

We will be victorious if we have not forgotten how to learn.

There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go.

The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose.

It's good to fail now and again - you learn a lot more out of failure than you do out of success.

One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.

When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind, and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.