Conan O'Brien Quotes

It would be so great if it were possible to go through life without making a single mistake but there is no such path. Falling, tripping, losing the way, making mistakes, little by little, walking one step at a time, this is the only way.

Too late, I found you can't wait to become perfect, you got to go out and fall down and get up with everybody else.

Man errs, till he has ceased to strive.

We stumble and fall constantly, even when we are most enlightened.

There is a distinction between failing and being a failure. Few things are learned in life without failing at least once. Did you learn to roller skate without falling a few times? Did you learn to ride a bike without losing your balance? Chances are you didn't. You may have wanted to do those things so intensely that you quickly put unsuccessful attempts behind you and kept trying. Soon you acquired the skill to do the thing you wanted. Even though in the process of learning you may have failed many times, you were not a failure. "Failing" simply became an open door to try again.

Life is just the same as learning to swim. Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live!

Successes teach you nothing. Failures teach you everything. Making mistakes is the most important thing you can do.

Sometimes you gotta stand by your failures to recognize your success

I learn from my mistakes. It’s a very painful way to learn, but without pain, the old saying is, there’s no gain.

Neither let mistakes and wrong directions - of which every man, in his studies and elsewhere, falls into many - discourage you. There is precious instruction to be got by finding that we are wrong. Let a man try faithfully, manfully to be right, he will grow daily more and more right. It is, at bottom, the condition which all men have to cultivate themselves. Our very walking is an incessant falling - a falling and a catching of ourselves before we come actually to the pavement! - it is emblematic of all things a man does.

Obviously it won't all run smoothly. But it's important to awknowledge that while we may make mistakes, in the long run, we may also learn fromt them.

No one could tell you: you just had to go through it on your own. If you were lucky, you came out on the other side and understood. If you didn't, you kept getting thrust back, retracing those steps, until you finally got it right.

No book is a chapter, no chapter tells the whole story, no mistake defines who we are. Hope makes our lives page turners.

You learn a lot of different things with trials and tribulations and, at the end of the day, you get some positives from whatever mistakes you've made.

I wish I could've lived my life without making any wrong turns. But that's impossible. A path like that doesn't exist. We fail. We trip. We get lost. We make mistakes. And little by little, one step at a time, we push forward. It's all we can do. On our own two feet.

Often we can achieve an even better result when we stumble yet are willing to start over, when we don't give up after a mistake, when something doesn't come easily but we throw ourselves into trying, when we're not afraid to appear less than perfectly polished.

It's all part of my journey - I've done a lot of stupid things, but you learn by your mistakes.

I have learned more from my mistakes than from my successes.

Learning how to work and learning how to fail is important.

I can only put myself in the process and try to learn through the process. Sometimes it will go well and sometimes it won't.

The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose. Life is a learning process and you have to try to learn what's best for you. Let me tell you, life is not fun when you're banging your head against a brick wall all the time.

Life isn't about algebra and geometry. Learning by making mistakes and not duplicating them is what life is about.

Too often we just look at these glistening successes. Behind them in many, many cases is failure along the way, and that doesn't get put into the Wikipedia story or the bio. Yet those failures teach you every bit as much as the successes.

If you're here right now in your life, your journey continues and you've lived to tell the story.

Television was a great place for me to kind of fall on my face and make mistakes and be okay with it and move on.