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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The greatest mistake you can make is to be continually fearing you will make one.
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I think we all wish we could erase some dark times in our lives. But all of life's experiences, bad and good, make you who you are. Erasing any of life's experiences would be a great mistake.
If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.
If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.
An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.
An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.
It only takes few seconds for us to hurt someone, but sometimes it takes years to repair the damage.
It only takes few seconds for us to hurt someone, but sometimes it takes years to repair the damage.
A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.
A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.
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Education will not (take the place of persistence); 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.
Money grows on the tree of persistence
Money grows on the tree of persistence
