No experiment is ever a complete failure. It can always be used as a bad example.
A series of failures may culminate in the best possible result.
Half the things that people do not succeed in are through fear of making the attempt.
The man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere.
Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objects and principles.
A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life and find solace in fantasy.
Cowardice as distinguished from panic is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.
It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes. It takes more gut and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.
Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.
I believe in Jesus Christ as my Lord and savior. I believe that Jesus died for my sins, and rose again, and that's my belief. I still don't know what 'Christian' means. I'm a follower of Christ, but I...
We are spending most of our time in American health care fixing the mistakes that either we in the profession are causing or our patients are, without recognizing it, causing to themselves.
The biggest mistakes, early on, involved foreign policy and involved the strategy for health care.
The mistakes and unresolved difficulties of the past in mathematics have always been the opportunities of its future.
And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion.
No, Sully'd decided long ago to abstain from all but the most general forms of regret. He allowed himself the vague wish that things had turned out differently, without blaming himself that they hadn'...
She also liked to remember that there could be no such thing as an intentional imperfection. People are always mistaking something that looks good for something that feels good.
That's all it takes, one drop of fear to curdle love into hate.
Perfection is an everlasting goal to pursue. It reminds us that we are mortal beings capable of making mistakes. When we correct them, it gives us an opportunity to become better people.
I don't have a lot of regrets about the way I've lived my life. Not because I haven't made mistakes - I've made plenty. But what's the point of regret? You can't undo the past.
Don't allow the faults you've made in the past define the person you are today.
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