Sam Rayburn Quotes

To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbsial disgrace.

For me, failure is not a bad thing because it teaches you how to succeed.

Experience is the best teacher. I've been through a lot - going to the Olympics, going to the Finals, having a lot of good games and having a lot of bad games. It's a rollercoaster ride and I'm just happy I'm a part of it. If it was easy, then everybody could do it.

There is nothing to be learned from the second kick of a mule.

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.

Nothing in this world is a gift. Whatever must be learned must be learned the hard way.

You learn more when things go wrong.

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

I'm not someone who throws the towel in, although I think there are many times when I could have and should have thrown the towel in, and nobody would have thought any worse of me.

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

Failure is success training.

I guess if a person never quit when the going got tough, they wouldn't have anything to regret for the rest of their life.

The only road to good shows is bad ones. Just go start having a bad time, and if you don't give up, you will get better.

It is only through failure and through experiment that we learn and grow.

Success is sometimes the outcome of a whole string of failures.

Fall forward. Here's what I mean: Reggie Jackson struck out 2,600 times in his career - the most in the history of baseball. But you don't hear about the strikeouts. People remember the home runs. Fall forward. Thomas Edison conducted 1,000 failed experiments. Did you know that? I didn't either - because number 1,001 was the light bulb. Fall forward. Every failed experiment is one step closer to success.

We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

One who does not fall, does not stand up.

The day is committed to error and floundering; success and achievement are matters of long range.

Nothing in life is worthwhile unless you take risks. Fall forward. Every failed experiment is one step closer to success.

Sometimes it takes a thousand tries to win

Success comes and goes. Your flops stay with you for life.

Failure is a stepping stone to success.

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