Quotes About Progress

Sometimes failure is merely chasing you off the wrong road and onto the right one.

Progress is made by trial and failure; the failures are generally a hundred times more numerous than the successes ; yet they are usually left unchronicled.

The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by failures.

There is always time for failure

Every conversation, every failure, every opportunity is a chance to get better. Starting today.

Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.

We are going to win and the industrial West is going to lose out; there's not much you can do about it because the reasons for your failure are within yourselves.

Unless you treat failure as part of the journey, you're never going to get anywhere.

Don't look back, because that's the sign of failure.

Without proper self-evaluation, failure is inevitable.

It is failure that guides evolution; perfection provides no incentive for improvement, and nothing is perfect.

Failure does not shape you; the way you respond to failure shapes you.

You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone.

Failure is delay, but not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead-end street.

People who don't make mistakes are no bloody good to you at all.

I'm done with those; regrets are an excuse for people who have failed.

For me, losing a tennis match isn't failure, it's research.

Don't wallow in failure. Instead, learn from it.

To put failure behind you, face up to it.

Your destiny is not cancelled because of a mistake, because of a failure. Get back up and go again.

This machine was a failure to the extent that it could not fly. In other respects it was a very important and necessary stepping stone.

In every failure lies the seeds of success.

Everything looks like a failure in the middle. In neary every change project, doubt is cast on the original vision because problems are mounting and the end is nowhere in sight.

It's not the failure that holds us back but the reluctance to begin over again that causes us to stagnate.