The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success. Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.
Bold, even reckless, ambition can lead to extraordinary success despite mistakes.
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Before Jonas Salk developed a vaccine for polio that finally worked, he tried two hundred unsuccessful ones. Somebody as…
— Jonas Salk
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
— Robert Francis Kennedy
It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much more often succeed through failures.
— Samuel Smiles
The word can't is not in the successful man's vocabulary. I haven't failed; I have just found 10,000 ways that didn't wo…
— Thomas A. Edison
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you do not try. Beverly Sills
— Unknown
Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm.
— Winston Churchill
