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!
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Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.
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Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan "press on" has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race
You cannot step into the same river twice.
You cannot step into the same river twice.
I am the author of my life. Unfortunately I'm writing in pen and I can't erase any of my mistakes.
I am the author of my life. Unfortunately I'm writing in pen and I can't erase any of my mistakes.
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Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.
Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.
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Well, what I tried to do is simply to get out on the land. And when I came to Washington, I think one of the mistakes we made early on was kind of having an ideological dispute up in the Congress.
