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Mistakes

Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

So long as a person who has made mistakes... honestly and sincerely wishes to be cured and to mend his ways, we should welcome him and cure his sickness so that he can become a good comrade. We can never succeed if we just let ourselves go and lash at h

Zedong, Mao

We don't make mistakes, we only have happy accidents.

To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

I do not fear failure. I only fear the slowing up of the engine inside of me which is pounding, saying, Keep going, someone must be on top, why not you?

Patton, George S.

People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.

King, Florence

MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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There exists a black kingdom which the eyes of man avoid because its landscape fails signally to flatter them. This darkness, which he imagines he can dispense with in describing the light, is error with its unknown characteristics. Error is certainty's constant companion. Error is the corollary of evidence. And anything said about truth may equally well be said about error: the delusion will be no greater.

Aragon, Louis

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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.

Dan Quayle

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To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.

Peter McWilliams

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Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.

Dali, Salvador

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People who make money often make mistakes, and even have major setbacks, but they believe they will eventually prosper, and they see every setback as a lesson to be applied in their move towards success.

Gillies, Jerry

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If I had my life to live over... I'd dare to make more mistakes next time.

Nadine Stair

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A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

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If I had my life to live again. I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.

Joel, Billy

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The road to wisdom? Well, it's plain and simple to express: Errand err again but less and less and less.

Hein, Piet

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I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.

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Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.

Taylor, Jeremy

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There is nothing wrong with making mistakes. Just don't respond with errors.

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Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

Jung, Carl

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The best may slip, and even the most cautious fall; but he is more than human who errors not at all.

Pomfret

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Don't be afraid to make a mistake. But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice.

Morita, Akio

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What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Learn from the mistakes of others -- you can never live long enough to make them all yourself.

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It is necessary for you to learn from others' mistakes. You will not live long enough to make them all yourself.

Rickover, Hyman G.

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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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A mistake at least proves that somebody stopped talking long enough to DO something.

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Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity that one could regret their not ranking among the achievements of the human mind.

Rostand, Jean

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Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.

Cato the Elder

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There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Don't be afraid to fail. Don't waste energy trying to cover up failure. Learn from your failures and go on to the next challenge. It's OK to fail. If you're not failing, you're not growing.

Judd, H. Stanley

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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.

Cullen Hightower

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The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.

Knight, Philip

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She had an unequalled gift... of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.

Henry James

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Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

Jones, Franklin P.

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If I had to live my life over again, I'd try to make more mistakes next time.

Stair, Nadine

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An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.

Niels Bohr

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Remember you will not always win. Some days, the most resourceful individual will taste defeat. But there is, in this case, always tomorrow -- after you have done your best to achieve success today.

Maltz, Maxwell

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You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.

Waitley, Denis

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I have found that I always learn more from my mistakes than from my successes. If you aren't making some mistakes, you aren't taking enough chances.

Sculley, John

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The greatest blunders, like the thickest ropes, are often compounded of a multitude of strands. Take the rope apart, separate it into the small threads that compose it, and you can break them one by one. You think, That is all there was! But twist them all together and you have something tremendous.

Hugo, Victor

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When I reflect, as I frequently do, upon the felicity I have enjoyed, I sometimes say to myself, that were the offer made me, I would engage to run again, from beginning to end, the same career of life. All I would ask, should be the privilege of an author, to correct in a second edition, certain errors of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.

Churchill, Winston