J. August Richards Quotes

I'll never be a non-stumbler. I'll be a forgiven stumbler, but never a non-stumbler.

I want people to learn from me, see I'm human, and understand that I make mistakes just like they do, but it doesn't have to consume you. You've got to walk through the raindrops, and that's totally what I am trying to do.

Perfectionist is sometimes the wrong word... It means like you're never satisfied, or you're upset by every single failure - any type of failure. And so for me, I don't look at failure as necessarily a bad thing as long as I'm able to learn from it and take something from it, so that next time I'm in that situation I know how to succeed.

Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

I feel like it's always about embracing what it is that you think is wrong with you. It's often times your greatest 'flaw' which actually forays into what is also your greatest strength.

We live in a world where to admit anything negative about yourself is seen as a weakness, when it's actually a strength. It's not a weak move to say, 'I need help.' In the long run, it's way better, because you have to fix it.

I don't live my life based on fear of failure. I live my life with an understanding of failure and I'm embracing it, because every time I fail, I learn something new.

I'm still here, living proof that sometimes it's OK to admit to your fallibility.

I have had to learn and to understand that sometimes I can't be always be at my best.

Don't be afraid to make mistakes and be able to laugh at yourself.

Everybody has seen that I make mistakes. Every single album I have ever made is about love. But I am not going to give up. I have to look at what I do wrong. I rush in, I get swept up, I ignore the signs. But so many of us are guilty of these things. Each time it goes wrong, it's hard. I get really hurt but I have to let myself go: 'What did I do? What can I learn?' And as hard and as hurtful as things get, I want to believe I will be able to go one step higher. I've got to hope that if I keep going I will eventually get it right.

Gosh, I made so many mistakes. I mean I still make mistakes. We all do.

I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.

You can't get it all right all the time, but you can try your best. If you've done that, all that's left is to accept your shortcomings and have the courage to try to overcome them.

We're all imperfect, and life is simply a perpetual, unending struggle against those imperfections.

Being perfect is being flawed, accepting it, and never letting it make you feel less than your best.

I'm glad I've been wrong enough to keep in practice. . . You can't avoid it, you've got to learn to handle it. If you only come face to face with your own mistakes once or twice in your life it's bound to be extra painful. I face mine every day--that way they ain't usually much worse than a dry shave.

You make mistakes. Mistakes don't make you.

We can't be as good as we'd want to, so the question then becomes, how do we cope with our own badness?

Mistakes are nothing to be ashamed of.

I'm growing up and continuing to learn from my mistakes and trying not to make the same ones over and over again, but am I going to live in a shell, or am I just going to hide from everybody and not do anything? I don't think that's the way I should live my life, and I'm not going to do it.

I spent a lot of my life holding back my cries, and I want to change that because it's not good for me.

I didn't like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish.

Everything I'm saying shouldn't be taken so serious. I'm playing, but at the same token, I'm acknowledging that I'm not always the perfect man; I'm not always doing the right things. That's who I am. I'm working to be better.

It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.