Martin Farquhar Tupper Quotes

Never mind failures; they are quite natural, they are the beauty of life, these failures. What would life be without them? It would not be worth having if it were not for struggles. Where would be the poetry of life? Never mind the struggles, the mistakes. I never heard a cow tell a lie, but it is only a cow-never a man. So never mind these failures, these little backslidings; hold the ideal a thousand times, and if you fail a thousand times, make the attempt once more.

Error is always more busy than truth.

Mistakes in themselves are unavoidable.

Error is the stuff of which the web of life is woven, and he who lives longest and wisest is only able to weave out the more of it.

We were almost all wrong

Mistakes happen, and they happen to the best of us.

America is very tolerant of mistakes.

You cannot be successful without failure.

Man errs, till he has ceased to strive.

99 percent of success is built on failure.

Failure is an absolute prerequisite for success. You learn to succeed by failing.

As long as they are well-intentioned, mistakes are not a matter for shame but for learning

Life is not life unless you make mistakes

An error is simply a failure to adjust immediately from a preconception to an actuality.

To err is human, but to persevere in error is only the act of a fool.

One errs as long as one strives.

Failure is a great teacher and, if you are open to it, every mistake has a lesson to offer.

Making mistakes is human ... repeating 'em is too.

Making mistakes is how you learn.

Failure is just another way to learn how to do something right.

Never get too hung up on mistakes.

A mistake isn't a mistake if you learn a lesson from it.

Whatever is almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is more likely to lead astray.

Through error you come to the truth! I am a man because I err! You never reach any truth without making fourteen mistakes and very likely a hundred and fourteen.

With every mistake, we must surely be learning.