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Mistakes

Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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It is said that only a fool learns from his own mistakes, a wise man from the mistakes of others.

Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

I have made decisions that turned out to be wrong, and went back and did it another way, and still took less time than many who procrastinated over the original decision. Your brain is capable of handling 140, 000 million bits of information in one second, and if you take hours or days or weeks to reach a vital decision, you are short-circuiting your most valuable property.

Gillies, Jerry

Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

A man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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

Hein, Piet

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

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

Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.

Sophia Loren

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The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

Carnegie, Dale

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Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?

Peter McWilliams

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

Waitley, Denis

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Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.

Al Franken

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Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.

Fuller, Buckminster

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I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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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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No man is beaten until his hope is annihilated, his confidence gone, As long as a man faces life hopefully, confidently, triumphantly, he is not a failure; he is not beaten until he turns his back on life.

Marden, Orison Swett

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If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.

Mary Pickford

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To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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No one that ever lived has ever had enough power, prestige, or knowledge to overcome the basic condition of all life -- you win some and you lose some.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you're overdoing it.

Jenkins, Josh

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

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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying them.

Smith, Harold J.

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We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

Elbert Hubbard

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A man should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

Pope, Alexander

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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it -- immediately.

Covey, Stephen R.

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No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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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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A man who never made a mistake, never made anything worth a darn.

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While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, another is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.

Link, Henry C.

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Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.

Waitley, Denis

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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

Ford, Henry

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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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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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

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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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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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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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