Og Mandino Quotes

Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over gain, and you will grow stronger until have accomplished a purpose - not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember.

Success is a wonderful thing, but it tends not to be the sort of experience that we learn from. We enjoy it; perhaps we even deserve it. But we don't acquire wisdom from it.

Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over again, and you will grow stronger until you have accomplished a purpose - not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember.

Well, the idea is that failure is an inevitable partner on the road to success and, if you're not willing to confront failure, you can never find out how good you are.

You learn nothing form your successes except to think too much of yourself. It is from failure that all growth comes, provided you can recognize it, admit it, learn from it, rise above it, and then try again.

After 30 years I have realized the greatest pleasure I can get is to have learnt.

No matter what one does, regardless of failure or success, the experience is a form of success in itself.

Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn; and you are too sensible a man not to learn from this failure.

I think about all my successes and failures, and sometimes the failures stick in your head as much as the wins. But you do move on.

Sometimes I lie awake at night, and ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.'

Every journey that is successful has culs-de-sac and speed bumps. I carry a wisdom gene through my life through the good, the bad, and the ugly.

You learn a lot about yourself when you have success for a while. Like, a lot of things that you think are really important aren't. But you need that process.

I cherish all of the times I've fallen on my face and made mistakes, because those experiences have made me who I am.

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.

Learning starts with failure; the first failure is the beginning of education.

I've failed way more than I've succeeded.

Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.

I have been shaped by my mistakes and disappointments - just as I have been shaped by my successes.

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 eventually became proud of my strikeouts, because each one represented another learning experience.

I was on my own at Wellesley, surrounded by a lot of young women who were motivated and intellectually curious. I started to read because I was required to do so for class, but I soon found myself enjoying the seclusion of the library. I came to see reading as an important way to learn about people, including myself.

We now live in a world where the only thing to have is success, but failure is marvelous. It's fertiliser, it's like living fertiliser, because you're forced on yourself.

Education brings about opportunity, and in turn inspiration.

If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person. It's how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit.

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.