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| Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who does nothing because he could only do a little | | Edmund Burke | |
| Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes | | Oscar Wilde | |
| One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake. | | Anton Chekhov | |
| Presidents do make mistakes, but the immortal Dante tells us that divine justice weighs the sins of the cold-blooded and the sins of the warm-hearted in different scales | | Franklin D. Roosevelt | |
| Reason often makes mistakes but conscience never does. | | Josh Billings | |
| The errors of women spring, almost always, from their faith in the good, or their confidence in the true | | Honore de Balzac | |
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| The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one | | Elbert Hubbard | |
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| The mistakes made by doctors are innumerable. They err habitually on the side of optimism as to treatment, of pessimism as to the outcome. | | Samuel Butler | |
| The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. | | Dale Carnegie | |
| There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go. | | Richard Bach | |
| Thinking you know when in fact you don't is a fatal mistake, to which we are all prone | | Bertrand Russell | |
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| What do you first do when you learn to swim? You make mistakes, do you not? And what happens? You make other mistakes, and when you have made all the mistakes you possibly can without drowning - and some of them many times over - what do you find? That you can swim? Well - life is just the same as learning to swim! Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live! | | Alfred Adler | |
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| You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing. | | Rene Descartes | |
