Why do we fall?

From the movie Batman Begins...

Batman's dad says this to the young Bruce after he rescued him from the well that he had fallen into, where the young Bruce broke his arm:

"Why do we fall? So that we may pick ourselves up."

A good review of the movie can be found here.

This reminds me of John Maxwells book, "Failing Forward". John Maxwell says in his book that its just normal to fall down (i.e. to fail at something), but make sure that when you do fall down, its in a stepforward.

"Its not how many times you fall that matters, but how you pick yourself up after each fall that matters the most."