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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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.
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each read more
This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people read more
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
Well, what I tried to do is simply to get out on the land. And when I came to Washington, read more
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.
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and read more
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.
