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Quotes About Progress

When you prohibit failure, you kill innovation.
~ Dan Pallotta
It is wrong to condemn people for doing a thing and then offer no alternative but failure. A person could get mad about that.
~ Wendell Berry
There are no dead ends. There is always a way out. What you learn in one failure you utilize in your next success.
~ Henry Ford
The only real failure is the failure to grow from what we go through
~ Marianne Williamson
Many a good beginning makes a bad ending.
~ Laura Ingalls Wilder
Failure is a signpost to turn you in another direction.
~ Oprah Winfrey
Repetition is not failure. Ask the waves, ask the leaves, ask the wind.
~ Mark Nepo
Failure is merely feedback that there is something blocking the path of the emergence and expansion of the greatest version of yourself.
~ Mother Teresa
One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment... If it doesn't turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
No one can be guaranteed success without failures along the way. But one thing that guarantees failure is never taking action.
~ Unknown
Negative results are just what I want. They're just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don't.
~ Thomas A. Edison
Failure is much easier to handle if you just think of it as feedback to guide your next effort.
~ Michael Josephson
To develop working ideas efficiently, I try to fail as fast as I can.
~ Richard P. Feynman
The one good thing about failure is that it makes you consider doing things a different way.
~ Marianne Williamson
To be developed as a leader, failure must be allowed. Failure only helps us improve.
~ Bill Hybels
Great success is built on failure, frustration, even catastrophe.
~ Sumner Redstone
I will not say I failed 1000 times, I will say that I discovered there are 1000 ways that can cause failure
~ Thomas A. Edison
Learning is about failure and recovery from failure.
~ Roger Schank
Nothing fails like failure
~ Margaret Drabble
You want failures to be small and informational. Silicon Valley does very well. It knows how to use failure as a tool for improvement.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Most success springs from an obstacle or failure.
~ Scott Adams
Making mistakes doesn't mean that what you did was a failure, or the wrong take. It was just a 'mis-take.' You need to go back and do another take. In each take there is a lesson.
~ Wally Amos
Failure is... the highway to success.
~ Og Mandino
There are systems that use failure as fuel for improvement, where the cost of failure is small.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb