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Mistakes

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

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No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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

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

Pomfret

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.

Hugh White

It is not easy, but you have to be willing to make mistakes. And the earlier you make those mistakes, the better.

Pfeiffer, Jane Cahill

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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It's always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile.

Garry Marshall

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It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Rumsfeld, Donald

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I have learned more from my mistakes than from my successes.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.

Pearl Buck

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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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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.

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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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Be aware that young people have to be able to make their own mistakes and that times change.

Shapira, Gina

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Since nothing we intend is ever faultless, and nothing we attempt ever without error, and nothing we achieve without some measure of finitude and fallibility we call humanness, we are saved by forgiveness.

Augsburger, David

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

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We're all human and we all goof. Do things that may be wrong, but do something!

Gingrich, Newt

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The sooner you make your first five thousand mistakes the sooner you will be able to correct them.

Nicolaides, Kimon

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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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A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

Einstein, Albert

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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Whenever you make a mistake or get knocked down by life, don't look back at it too long. Mistakes are life's way of teaching you. Your capacity for occasional blunders is inseparable from your capacity to reach your goals. No one wins them all, and your failures, when they happen, are just part of your growth. Shake off your blunders. How will you know your limits without an occasional failure? Never quit. Your turn will come.

Mandino, Og

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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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There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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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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I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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The value of action is that we make mistakes; mistakes show us what we need to learn.

Mcwilliams, Peter

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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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Lord, deliver me from the person who never makes a mistake, and also from the person who makes the same mistake twice.

Mayo, William James

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I have made mistakes, but I never made the mistake of claiming that I never made one.

Bennett, James Gordon

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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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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Elbert Hubbard

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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.

Walter Bagehot

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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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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

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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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Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.

Soros, George

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

Henry James