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When you laugh at yourself, you gain perspective. Then you realize that the mistakes you made, as lo...

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It will be very hard. You’ll make a million mistakes, and you’ll pay for them all, one way or anothe...

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Gilks sighed. ‘You’re a clever man, Cjelli, I grant you that,’ he said, ‘but you make the samemistak...

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Douglas AdamsDirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

Life is the only real counselor. Wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a par...

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Sometimes life seems like a match between oneself and one's gaolors. The gaolers, of course, are one...

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Edith WhartonThe Buccaneers

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it so fine that ...

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A failure is a man who has blundered but is not able to cash in the experience.

Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius.

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Elbert HubbardThe Philosophy of Elbert Hubbard

There is no reason to repeat bad history.

Do not be afraid of mistakes providing you do not make the same one twice.

The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything.

There are no mistakes no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from.

I believe we are solely responsible for our choices and we have to accept the consequences of every...

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Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose...

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I don't think you can come into your wisdom until you have made mistakes on your own skin and felt t...

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I'd learned enough from life's experiences to understand that destiny's interventions can sometimes ...

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Elizabeth GilbertCommitted: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

Finite to fail but infinite to venture.

It’s a journey and the sad thing is you only learn from experience, so as much as someone can tell y...

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But it's a journey and the sad thing is you only learn from experience, so as much as someone can te...

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It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands new undertakings and new forms of expressi...

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But in the Gulf you got time. And I'm figuring all the time. I've got to think right all the time. I...

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Men are men they needs must err.

I`ve got a black woolen hat and it`s got Pervert written across the front of it. It`s the name of th...

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No-one loves another More than he loves whatever another within may haveThat is part of one's self

I don't want to give advice to a 19-year-old, because I want a 19-year-old to make mistakes and lear...

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But oh, the perils of leadership in a species so anxious to be told what to do. How little they knew...

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The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - s...

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But I’m not guilty,” said K. “there’s been a mistake. How is it even possible for someone to be guil...

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I won't wait until the end of my term to say I made mistakes at the beginning. That's too late. I wi...

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It is the true nature of mankind to learn from mistakes not from example.

The errors of great men are venerable because they are more fruitful than the truths of little men.

Life is a series of relapses and recoveries.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing noth...

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Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

Better a false belief than no belief at all.

There's folks 'ud stand on their heads and then say the fault was i' their boots.

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be call...

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Once she had loved Prince Joffrey with all her heart, and admired and trusted her his mother, the qu...

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The weak have one weapon: the errors of those who think they are strong.

War is a series of catastrophes that results in victory.

A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed - I well know. For it's a sign that he trie...

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Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.

Stop agreeing with everything I say! It's not as if you're going to solve everything by admitting yo...

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Haruki MurakamiThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

It’s okay to not be perfect and not to have everything figured out. It’s okay to feel things that ar...

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The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

And what if I did run my ship aground oh still it was splendid to sail it!

Failure is only an opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

One who fears failure limits his activities.

Failure is a school in which the truth always grows strong.

It is defeat that turns bone to flint it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle it is defeat that ...

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He who has never failed somewhere that man cannot be great.

However, if Sir Launcelot of the Lake failed now and then in his behavior, who is there in the world...

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Howard PyleThe Story of the Champions of the Round Table

In all science error precedes the truth and it is better it should go first than last.

I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false as...

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I make mistakes like the next man. In fact, being--forgive me--rather cleverer than most men, my mis...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.

I call Alibaba '1,001 mistakes.' We expanded too fast, and then in the dot-com bubble, we had to hav...

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I never saw my dad cry. My son saw me cry. My dad never told me he loved me, and consequently I told...

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The MistakeWith the mistake your life goes in reverse.Now you can see exactly what you didWrong yest...

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A man of genius makes no mistakes his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

That's all it takes, one drop of fear to curdle love into hate.

One of the advantages of defeat in life - maybe the main advantage - is that it provides an excuse f...

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All I ever wanted to do was to make food accessible to everyone to show that you can make mistakes -...

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You don't learn from successes you don't learn from awards you don't learn from celebrity you only l...

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Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objects and principles.

I think success has no rules but you can learn a great deal from failure.

Naturally, in the course of my life I have made lots of mistakes, large and small, for one reason or...

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We all make mistakes but one has to move on.

It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes. It takes more grit and gumption to forgive them fo...

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It is very east to forgive others their mistakes it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for...

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It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes. It takes more gut and gumption to forgive them for...

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Some of the worst mistakes in my life were haircuts

[P]eople with self-respect have the courage of their mistakes. They know the price of things.

If I lose I'll walk away and never feel bad.... Because I did all I could there was nothing more t...

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Maybe you expected marriage to be perfect - I guess that's where you and I are different. See, I tho...

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It was one thing to make a mistake; it was another thing to keep making it. I knew what happened whe...

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Do you ever wonder how we all got here? On Earth, I mean. Forget the song and dance about Adam and E...

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If I have gained anything over these months, it is the knowledge there is no starting over- only liv...

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I think you must make a few [mistakes]. Of you don't, you're probably thinking too much. That's the ...

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It’d be a mistake,” Lee said. “I think maybe you have to make a few,” Merrin said. “If you don’t, yo...

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I think you must make a few [mistakes]. Of you don't, you're probably thinking too much. That's the ...

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It’d be a mistake,” Lee said. “I think maybe you have to make a few,” Merrin said. “If you don’t, yo...

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Every man's got to figure to get beat sometime.

We look back on our life as a thing of broken pieces, because our mistakes and failures are always t...

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The worst mistake a boss can make is not to say 'Well done'.

Computer mistake in grade-giving resulted in academic failure of several brilliant students. After s...

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Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from ...

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We often need to lose sight of our priorities in order to see them.

Failure ... is in a sense the highway to success inasmuch as every discovery of what is false lea...

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If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.

If all else fails immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.

All men are liable to error and most men are ... by passion or interest under temptation to it.

The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose.

One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk fai...

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If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistak...

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The only way to maximize group creativity—to make the whole more than the sum of its parts—is to enc...

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One of the things that is particularly precious about working at Apple is that many of us on the des...

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