George Takei Quotes

We can all learn from our failures. What I've learned is how much it hurts to fail.

My biggest mistake was my best lesson... you don't learn anything when everything is going perfectly.

If we fail now, then we will have forgotten in abundance what we learned in hardship: that democracy rests on faith; freedom asks more than it gives; and the judgment of God is harshest on those who are most favored.

Failure means you've now learned another valuable lesson that pushes you one step closer to success.

If you're going to define me properly, you must think in terms of my failures as well as my successes.

Experience means you did a lot of things wrong.

I think failure is nothing more than life's way of nudging you that you are off course.

One of the most valuable lessons I learned...is that we all have to learn from our mistakes, and we learn from those mistakes a lot more than we learn from the things we succeeded in doing.

Even before I had had time to really think things through, I realized we must not forget. If all of us forgot, the same thing might happen again, in 20 or 50 or 100 years.

Experience, they say, is the best teacher, but we get the grade first and the lesson later.

We all learn here by the honorable path of horrible mistakes.

That is, I think that what I do, that democracy in Venezuela hasn't really worked well since the [Ugo] Chávez era and that it has gotten even worse since the last elections, in which the Maduro government lost control of the House, of the country's legislature.

Accept false steps as opportunities to learn. It's one thing to hate failure, it's another to fear it.

There are no failures, only outcomes. As long as I learn something, I am succeeding.

Failures teach you more, there's always something fundamental about them.

If those people in power never made any mistakes, we'd be done for as a democracy. But people keep making mistakes. History is a series of mistakes.

Trust the people -- that is the crucial lesson of history.

You're not always going to hit the bull's-eye. I'm going to make movies that work and I'm going to make movies that don't work, and that's just a part of being creative. Because really, I think if you're taking risks and you're pushing yourself and you're doing things that scare you, you are going to fall on your face, and it's not always going to work.

Failures aren't failures if you learn something from them.

There's so many lessons I get from chess, it's incredible, but I think the biggest thing for me has always been is that losing is learning.

If someone were to say, 'Well, what would you have done differently?' I'd say, 'Nothing'. I think you need to make mistakes.

I learned more from the mistakes than from the good things.

There's a Theodore Roosevelt speech about the importance of being in the arena, whether you fail or you succeed, or you make a complete idiot of yourself, as long as you're doing the best with what you have, using whatever knowledge you have to bring to the table at that moment. And you continue to keep learning. I think my mistakes have made me much stronger. It's nice to know that things don't ultimately break you; that you need to go there to know.

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

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.