Dale Carnegie Quotes

There will be some things I do well and things I do wrong. But I keep coming. Playing with heart. That's going to help me continue to grow.

You can't learn if you don't try.

You can learn a line from a win and a book from a defeat.

I find quite as much material for a lecture in those points wherein I have failed, as in those wherein I have been moderately successful.

Mistakes in life teach you how to succeed because you want to try again and do it better.

It is so important for me to try, and having tried I look back on failure and success as if it were all the same.

After every difficulty, ask yourself two questions: 'What did I do right?' and 'What would I do differently?

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

When you win a lot, you don't learn much. With my ups and downs, it's a lot of learning.

As athletes, we're defined by what we've accomplished. Those are what most people remember and what you get paid for. But I learned more from my failures than from all of my successes put together - failures as an athlete and as a person.

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

I have looked back on situations and thought that I could have handled a few differently and probably better.

Divorce is never a pleasant experience. You look upon it as a failure. But I learned to be a different person once we broke up. Sometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success.

You don't learn anything from success. You know, it's comfortable, it's nice, it's warm, but success just leaves you kind of feeling a little bloated.

You don't have to be a brain surgeon to be a valuable person. You become valuable because of the knowledge that you have. And that doesn't mean you won't fail sometimes. The important thing is to keep trying.

I'd like to do some things over again. I never want to repeat anything that went well, though - I just want to do better at slightly different things.

It's about the learning, because obviously I learn more when I fail than when I win.

Treat failure as a lesson on how not to approach achieving a goal, and then use that learning to improve your chances of success when you try again. Failure is only the end if you decide to stop.

It's okay to fail if you learn from it.

We need to learn what's working and what's not working.

I always learn something from every race.

Failure is a learning experience, and the guy who has never failed has never done anything.

No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone who isn't trying.

Many people dream of success. To me, success can only be achieved through repeated failure and introspection.

What people call success is only preparation for the next failure.