Carl Sandburg Quotes

You don't run from the bad things in life; learn from them, because your worst is what will lead you to your best.

It's failure, really, that you grow by, although nobody likes to experience it.

He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.

We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes - understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success.

As I said there is nothing wrong with failing. Pick yourself up and try it again. You never are going to know how good you really are until you go out and face failure.

When I have tried and failed, I shall have failed.

Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen. Every blunder behind us is giving a cheer for us, and only for those who were willing to fail are the dangers and splendors of life.

It is in the failures of our striving that we find ourselves, and it is then, in the rising above them and trying again, that we carry ourselves to the next level. If the runner stumbles, they get up and run again.

From success, you learn absolutely nothing. From failure and setbacks conclusions can be drawn. That goes for your private life as well as your career.

Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Success is 99 percent failure.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.

It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

I haven't always done a good job, and I haven't always been successful - but I know that I have tried.

Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something.

I have found that I always learn more from my mistakes than from my successes. If you aren't making some mistakes, you aren't taking enough chances.

I have had unsuccessful films, but I learned a lot from those films. I give my failures as much importance as my success.

I have always believed that one should not be scared of losing, I think that really is the key.

True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

If I listened to my critics, I would still be at home under my bed right now.

I'm satisfied and proud of the things I did - even the bumps and the bruises that I've had on the way. You fall down, you get up, you brush yourself off and you keep going. And that's what we're doing.