John Wooden Quotes

As long as you've done your best, making mistakes doesn't matter. You and I are human; we will mess up. What counts is learning from your mistakes and getting back up when life has knocked you down.

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

Perhaps the most important thing I could say is to never be thrown by failure and mistakes. Each and everything that happens, even if it was not what you hoped would happen, is a valuable, life-learning tool. And you will only achieve success if you know how to learn from your failures and mistakes. It’s vital.

You may have failed, but you are not a failure. That's what you did. That's not who you are.

You must never feel badly about making mistakes.

If I fall over and make mistakes, I'll pick myself back up and hope for the best and try to conduct myself with as much authenticity and moral code.

You never fail if you know in your heart that you did the best of which you are capable.

Never feel shame for trying and failing, for he who never failed is he who never tried.

Don't let your failures define you.

A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

When I have tried and failed, I shall have failed.

I don't think something is a failure if you put your all into it. I'm a big fan of the saying, "Nothing beats a failure but a try."

Love yourself for who you are and just keep going.

Everybody has seen that I make mistakes. Every single album I have ever made is about love. But I am not going to give up. I have to look at what I do wrong. I rush in, I get swept up, I ignore the signs. But so many of us are guilty of these things. Each time it goes wrong, it's hard. I get really hurt but I have to let myself go: 'What did I do? What can I learn?' And as hard and as hurtful as things get, I want to believe I will be able to go one step higher. I've got to hope that if I keep going I will eventually get it right.

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

Care not for time and success. Act out thy part, whether it be to fail or to prosper.

I think most people can do a whole lot more if they just try.

If a man didn't make mistakes he'd own the world in a month.But if he didn't profit by his mistakes he wouldn't own a blessed thing.

The difference between the successful and the troubled is not error-free living; it is that by discovering and implementing a life calling, the successful stand on their pile of trash while the troubled sit under theirs.

We all make mistakes, but the people who thrive from their mistakes are the successful ones.

No matter how many mistakes you've made in the past, or what sort of difficulties you struggle with now, you are destined to live in victory.

How many people are completely successful in every department of life? Not one. The most successful people are the ones who learn from their mistakes and turn their failures into opportunities.

No one likes to fail. But we mortals do not become champions without effort and discipline or without making mistakes.

Give yourself a break. Stop beating yourself up! Everyone makes mistakes, has setbacks and failures. You don't come with a book on how to get it right all the time. You will fail sometimes, not because you planned to, but simply because you're human. Failure is a part of creating a great life. Stand up to it and handle it with grace. Because, you can.