We are all mistaken sometimes; sometimes we do wrong things, things that have bad consequences. But it does not mean we are evil, or that we cannot be trusted ever afterward.
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made.
There is no greater sorrowthan thinking back upon a happy timein misery
Of course, we are drawn to teachers who unconsciously mirror our own psychology. None of us are clean. We all make mistakes. It's the repetition of those mistakes and the refusal to look at them that...
It is so fatally easy to make young children believe that they are horrible.
I take all of my life lessons, which some people might call 'mistakes,' and apply them to my future so that I keep growing.
Our government leaders... have made many mistakes in the past when they have lost sight of the sacred American values rooted in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. We are at the brin...
Failure is not sweet but it need not be bitter.
Lack of will power has caused more failures than lack of intelligence or ability.
Defeat is a thing of weariness of incoherence of boredom.
Inaction contrary to its reputation for being a refuge is neither safe nor comfortable.
Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times you don't want to set him down as a failure until he's dead or loses his courage - and that's the same thing.
Some of the biggest failures I ever had were successes.
A peacefulness follows any decision even the wrong one.
I made a mistake today I made a mistake yesterday. I think it's ... very important to ignore the negative.
You can beat the Bear once but never the same way twice.
He who is shipwrecked twice is foolish to blame the sea.
I have made mistakes but I have never made the mistake of claiming that I never made one.
Of all the follies the greatest is to love the world.