Quotes About Development

Forget your mistakes, but remember what they taught you.

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.

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

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

We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we can do ... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.

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

Mistakes and errors are the discipline through which we advance.

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

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.

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

People fail forward to success.

It is not easy, but you have to be willing to make mistakes. And the earlier you make those mistakes, the better.

Mothers can get weaned as well as babies.

"The tradition of the new." Yesterday's avant-gard-experiment is today's chic and tomorrow's cliche.

You will never be the person you can be if pressure, tension and discipline are taken out of your life.

A man with few friends is only half-developed; there are whole sides of his nature which are locked up and have never been expressed. He cannot unlock them himself, he cannot even discover them; friends alone can stimulate him and open him.

Genius develops in quiet places, character out in the full current of human life.

Something must happen!

Why always, "not yet"? Do flowers in spring say, "not yet"?

Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge one for yourself.

All rising to great places is by a winding stair.

Unless in one thing or another we are straining toward perfection, we have forfeited our manhood.