A man may fall many times but he won't be a failure until he says that someone pushed him.
Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.
Do you know the difference between an error and a mistake, Ensign?" 'No, sir.' "Anyone can make an error, Ensign. But that error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.
The devil lives in our mistakes, the lord lives in our rights. Who lives in our ignorance, and who wins after all?
Mistakes are your milestones, don't let them Stop you! Step up with them.
Experience teaches us the events of a lifetime.
You're afraid of making mistakes. Don't be. Mistakes can be profited by. Man, when I was young I shoved my ignorance in people's faces. They beat me with sticks. By the time I was forty my blunt instr...
Did I do and say these things? Yes, I did. Are there any mitigating circumstances? Not really, unless any circumstances {in other words, context) can be regarded as mitigating. And before you judge, a...
Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.
Failure is something made only by those who fail to dare not by those who dare to fail.
When the ax came into the forest the trees said the handle is one of us.
No matter how much you try to maintain order in your life, no matter how careful you are to guard against mistakes, against imperfections, there is always some smudge, some flaw, lurking out of sight....
Mistakes wreck your life. But they make what you have. It's kind of all one. You know what Hester told me when we were working the sheep one time? She said it's no good to complain about your flock, b...
Maybe you expected marriage to be perfect - I guess that's where you and I are different. See, I thought it would be all about making mistakes, but doing it with someone who's there to remind you what...
It is defeat that turns bone to flint it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle it is defeat that makes men invincible. Do not then be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defe...
The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.
The biggest quality in successful people I think is an impatience with negative thinking. ... How many opportunities come along? If you wait for the right one that's wrong because it may never be ri...
So that's my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made before. Don't freeze, don't stop, don't worry tha...
It's hard to know where to start. Things have been a mess for so many years that trying to pin down a starting point is like trying to figure out where your skin starts. All you can ever really know i...
If I have gained anything over these months, it is the knowledge there is no starting over - only living with the mistakes you've made.