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"A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them."
~ John C. Maxwell
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"Mistakes are the portals of discovery."
~ James Joyce
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"Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error."
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
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"Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience".
~ Denis Waitley
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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."
~ Carl Jung
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"There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go."
~ Richard Bach
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"The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way."
~ Dale Carnegie
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“When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.”
~ Paulo Coelho, Brida
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“If people refuse to look at you in a new light and they can only see you for what you were, only see you for the mistakes you've made, if they don't realize that you are not your mistakes, then they have to go.”
~ Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
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“Smart people learn from their mistakes. But the real sharp ones learn from the mistakes of others.”
~ Brandon Mull, Fablehaven
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“I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards.”
~ Rudyard Kipling, Under The Deodars
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“It is important that we forgive ourselves for making mistakes. We need to learn from our errors and move on.”
~ Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
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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. ”
~ C.G. Jung
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“Learn from your history, but don’t live in it.”
~ Steve Maraboli
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“The wise are not wise because they make no mistakes. They are wise because they correct their mistakes as soon as they recognize them.”
~ Xenocide
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"Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them."
~ Bruce Lee
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"Everything tells me that I am about to make a wrong decision, but making mistakes is just part of life. What does the world want of me? Does it want me to take no risks, to go back to where I came from because I don’t have the courage to say 'yes' to life?"
~ Paulo Coelho
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"Do not condemn the judgment of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong."
~ Dandemis
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"Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's."
~ Billy Wilder
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"If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster."
~ Stephen R. Covey
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"Dare to be wrong and to dream."
~ Friedrich von Schiller
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"Often we can achieve an even better result when we stumble yet are willing to start over, when we don't give up after a mistake, when something doesn't come easily but we throw ourselves into trying, when we're not afraid to appear less than perfectly polished."
~ Sharon Salzberg
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"Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones of genius."
~ Elbert Hubbard
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"I make more mistakes than anyone else I know, and sooner or later, I patent most of them."
~ Thomas Alva Edison
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"If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong."
~ Charles F. Kettering
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"It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all."
~ Edward de Bono
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"There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons."
~ Denis Waitley
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"There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth…not going all the way, and not starting."
~ Buddha
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"Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit."
~ Conrad Hilton
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"Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again."
~ Franklin P. Jones
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"Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you’re going to do now and do it."
~ Will Durant
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"Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong."
~ John Diefenbaker
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"Always make new mistakes."
~ Esther Dyson
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"In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing."
~ Theodore Roosevelt
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"Be not afraid because you have faltered anywhere. For He has said, I forgive, even as you forgive others. Then how forgiving are you? Answer this, and you will know just how you have been forgivien. It is the law, it is the Lord, it is love."
~ Edgar Cayce
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"Without music, life would be a mistake."
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
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"Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from."
~ Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
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"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Passion. The life of an entrepreneur is occasionally exhilarating, and almost always exhausting. Only unbridled passion for the concept is likely to see you through the 17-hour days (month after month) and the painful mistakes that are part and parcel of the start-up process."
~ Tom Peters
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"After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery. It’s better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life."
~ Sophia Loren
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"Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun."
~ Mary Lou Cook
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"Do not fear mistakes, there are none."
~ Miles Davis
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"Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes."
~ Mahatma Gandhi
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"He who hesitates because he feels inferior is being surpassed by he who is busy making mistakes and becoming superior."
~ Henry Link
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"If I had my life to live over…I’d dare to make more mistakes next time."
~ Nadine Sanger
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"If you can’t make a mistake, you can’t make anything."
~ Marva Collins
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"Live life fully while you’re here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You’re going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don’t try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human."
~ Anthony Robbins
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"Mistakes are 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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"Mistakes are the portals of discovery."
~ James Joyce
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"Punishing honest mistakes stifles creativity."
~ Ross Perot
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"So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don’t sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we’ve satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late."
~ Lee Iacocca
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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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"The power of mistakes enables us to reframe creative blocks and turn them around…The troublesome parts of our work, the parts that are most baffling and frustrating, are in fact the growing edges. We see these opportunities the instant we drop our preconceptions and our self-importance."
~ Stephen Nachmanovitch
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"There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from."
~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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"To err is human, to forgive, divine."
~ Alexander Pope
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