Failed, but failed...

or how it pays off,

to deal with mistakes and failure.

Aphorisms, sayings and quotes

Learning and mastery not only thrive on interest and curiosity, but also to a very large extent on mistakes, mishaps and inadequacies, on shortcomings and deficiencies – and on the desire to change.

However, mistakes and painful failures are not easy to let go of. In both senses of the word: they are painfully unacceptable and endearingly existent.

What are they shouting at me? „Make something of it! “

In the following, I asked around to find out what others have said, experienced and concluded about failure and mistakes.

My most uplifting twenty favourites now follow:

My top ten

1.

„A mistake is better than none “ 

(Andreas Gebhardt, professional juggler)

2.

"Failure is not the answer to the Questionwho I am, but is the question itself."

(unknown)

3.

"I never lose. I either win or I learn."

(Nelson Mandela)

4.

"No note you play is wrong; it's the note you play afterwards that makes it right or wrong."

(Miles Davis)

5.

"Detours also broaden our horizons."

(Ernst Ferstl)

6.

"Everything you want is on the other side of fear."

(Jack Canfield)

7.

"It's only a mistake the second time."

(Unknown)

8.

"Paths are created by the fact that we walk them."

(Franz Kafka)

9.

"Success never lasts forever and failure is never final."

(Mike Ditka)

10.

„Yesterday's solutions are today's problems “

(Unknown)

5 Observations during handling

with failure and mistakes

1.

"There are more People who surrender than those who fail."

(Henry Ford)

2.

"Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right."

(Henry Ford)

3.

"Failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of it."

(Karamo Brown in "Queer Eye")

4.

"One waits for the times to change, the other tackles them and takes action."

(Dante Alighieri)

5.

"Failing after a long period of perseverance is much greater than never strive for anything that could justify the term ‚failure‘."

(George Eliot)

5 challenges for dealing with mistakes and failure

1.

"Shoot! If you don't shoot, you'll miss 100%."

(Wayne Gretzky)

2.

"Allow yourself to fail – and at the same time allow yourself to surpass yourself."

(freely adapted from Eloise Ristad)

3.

Never give a beginner two arrows; he will miss the first one.

(Charlotte Joko Beck)

4.

"You have to take a risk. In a world that is changing incredibly quickly, not taking risks is the only A strategy that is guaranteed to fail."

(Mark Zuckerberg)

5.

"Be big enough to own up to your mistakes,

smart enough to profit from them and

strong enough to correct them."

(John C. Maxwell)

Is there a quote missing that should be mentioned here about failure and mistakes?

Then feel free to write it in the comment function…