Failure

1. If you can't accept losing, you can't win.
by Vince Lombardi

2. One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.
by Samuel Butler

3. You can't have any successes unless you can accept failure.
by George Cukor

4.  We have fought this fight as long, and as well, as we know how. We have been defeated … there is now but one course to pursue. We must accept the situation.
by Robert E. Lee

5. The most considerable difference I note among men is not their readiness to fall into error, but in their readiness to acknowledge these inevitable lapses.
by Thomas Henry Huxley

6. An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.
by Caroline L. Gascoigne

7. The man who can own up to his error is greater than he who merely knows how to avoid making it.
by Cardinal De Retz

8. I have made mistakes, but I have never made the mistake of claiming that I never made one.
by James Gordon Bennett