The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
"Failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.
While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.
Mistakes are a part of the dues one pays for a full life.
All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.
A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.
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.
It's always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile.
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.
I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.
A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience.
One of the great things about being willing to try new things and make mistakes is that making mistakes keeps you humble. People who are humble learn more than people who are arrogant.
Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?
I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're Doing Something.
If you can't make a mistake, you can't make anything.
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