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Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

— Winston Churchill

A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

— Confucius

Do not judge me by my success, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.

— Nelson Mandela

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

— Confucius

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

— Albert Einstein

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

— Benjamin Franklin

Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

— Oscar Wilde

I never lose. I either win or learn.

— Nelson Mandela

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

— Albert Einstein

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much.

— Theodore Roosevelt

Many of life's failures are people who did not realise how close they were to success when they gave up.

— Thomas Edison

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

— Thomas Edison

Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success.

— John Keats

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

— Maya Angelou

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

— George Bernard Shaw

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