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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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.
Don't beat yourself up over past mistakes. Hold your head high and dry your tears. A new day is here.
Don't beat yourself up over past mistakes. Hold your head high and dry your tears. A new day is here.
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.
He that speaks much, is much mistaken.
He that speaks much, is much mistaken.
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.
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.
I am overwhelmed by the grace and persistence of my people.
I am overwhelmed by the grace and persistence of my people.
I have learned more from my mistakes than from my successes.
I have learned more from my mistakes than from my successes.
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.
