Henri Nouwen Quotes

Stumbling is not falling.

Fail early, fail often, but always fail forward.

Don't be afraid to try again everyone goes south every now and then.

Success is never final, but failure can be.

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.

I'm going to mess up. But I'm going to get back, you know, and get after it and try to do better the next day.

Life is easy when you're hot. But what happens when the ball bounces the other way? You just keep getting back up and climbing up.

I've had disappointments and heartbreaks and setbacks and roles I didn't get, but something always came along that either made me better or was an even better role.

You have to understand that when things go wrong in your life, it doesn't mean you need to quit. It means you need to get stronger and change your plan.

Every stumble is not a fall, and every fall does not mean failure.

My attitude has always been, if you fall flat on your face, at least you're moving forward. All you have to do is get back up and try again.

I failed, got back up. I failed, got back up.

I don't believe in make-or-break moments in your life. If you screw something up, it can knock you down, but that only means you'll be better when you get back to where you were before.

Everything that I do should be wrong, but I started really young, and I just learned how to learn. I would fail, and I would figure out why that didn't go right and do it again.

How you succeed is how you deal with failure. Whatever way you dress it up, something hasn't worked.

The most important lesson to remember is that failure is inevitable, but so is success, so rebound.

There's no more powerful lesson than knowing that your setbacks will one day help you succeed.

I believe success is delayed failure.

Some of my biggest victories have come directly after some of my biggest failures.

We Don't always succeed in what we try, certainly not by the world's standards, but I think you'll find it's the willingness to keep trying that matters most.

Failure is success training.

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.

When new hopes fail, old hopes return in the endless cycle of desperation.

You keep on going if you fail.

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.