Mistakes

(33 votes)   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.

Orison Swett Marden
1850-1924, American Author, Founder of Success Magazine

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(314 votes)   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.

David Augsnurger

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(284 votes)   A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

James Joyce
1882-1941, Irish Author

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(271 votes)   Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

Vincent Van Gogh
1853-1890, Dutch-born French Painter

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(271 votes)   Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

James Joyce
1882-1941, Irish Author

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(264 votes)   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.

Louis Aragon
1897-1982, French Poet

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(248 votes)   Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

Franklin P. Jones

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(227 votes)   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.

Og Mandino
1923-1996, American Motivational Author, Speaker

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

Buckminster Fuller
American Engineer, Inventor, Designer, Architect ''Geodesic Dome''

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(219 votes)   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.

Stephen R. Covey
American Speaker, Trainer, Author of ''The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People''

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(213 votes)   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?''

George S. Patton
1885-1945, American Army General during World War II

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(206 votes)   It is worse than a crime: it is a mistake.

Joseph Fouche
1759-1820, French Minister of Police Under Napoleon

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(206 votes)   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.

Benjamin Franklin
1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat

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

Peter Mcwilliams
American Author of ''Life 101''

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(186 votes)   An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.

Orlando A. Battista

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