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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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Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
- Carl Jung
To err is human, to forgive divine.
- Alexander Pope
Freedom is not worth having if it
does not connote freedom to err.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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Anyone who has never made a mistake,
has never tried anything new.
- Albert Einstein
Guilt says I've done something wrong;
... shame says there is something wrong with me.
Guilt says I've made a mistake;
... shame says I am a mistake.
Guilt says what did was not good;
... shame says I am no good.
- John Bradshaw
A person who never made a mistake
never tried anything new.
- Albert Einstein
It is a mistake to look too far ahead.
Only one link in the chain of destiny
can be handled at a time.
- Winston Churchill
The biggest mistake we could ever make in our lives
is to think we work for anybody but ourselves.
- Brian Tracy
He who never made a mistake,
never made a discovery.
- Samuel Smiles
It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom.
It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest
might weaken and the wisest might err.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I claim to be a simple individual liable
to err like any other fellow mortal.
I own, however, that I have humility enough
to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming
that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.
- Edward R. Murrow
Without music, life would be a mistake...
I would only believe in a God who knew how to dance.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Many people mistake our work for our vocation.
Our vocation is the love of Jesus.
- Mother Teresa
He who joyfully marches in rank and file
has already earned my contempt.
He has been given a large brain by mistake,
since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
- Albert Einstein
Self-respect is often mistaken for arrogance
when in reality it is the opposite.
When we can recognize all our good qualities
as well as or faults with neutrality,
we can start to appreciate ourselves
as we would a dear friend
and experience the comfortable inner glow of respect.
To embrace the journey towards our full potential
we need to become our own loving teacher and coach.
Spurring ourselves on to become better human beings,
we develop true regard for ourselves,
and our life will become sacred.
- Osho
My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong,
who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
- Bono
Remember, there are no mistakes, only lessons.
Love yourself, trust your choices, and everything is possible.
- Cherie-Carter Scotts
Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth,
and if a man does not know what a thing is,
it is at least an increase in knowledge
if he knows what it is not.
- Carl Jung
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
- James Joyce
It's okay to make mistakes.
Mistakes are our teachers - they help us to learn.
- John Bradshaw
The physician can bury his mistakes,
but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines -
so they should go as far as possible from home
to build their first buildings.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Trust your own instinct.
Your mistakes might as well be your own,
instead of someone else's.
- Billy Wilder
I never make stupid mistakes.
Only very, very clever ones.
- John Peel
There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth
- not going all the way and not starting.
- The Buddha
Success seems to be connected with action.
Successful people keep moving.
They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
- Conrad Hilton
There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth;
not going all the way, and not starting.
- The Buddha
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
- Oscar Wilde
Achievement seems to be connected with action.
Successful men and women keep moving.
They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
- Conrad Hilton
I've learned that mistakes can often be
as good a teacher as success.
- Jack Welch
A doctor can bury his mistakes
but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself,
and know that everything in life has purpose.
There are no mistakes, no coincidences,
all events are blessings given to us to learn from.
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure.
I make mistakes, I am out of control
and at times hard to handle.
But if you can't handle me at my worst,
then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.
- Marilyn Monroe
Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition.
The immature mind often mistakes one for the other,
or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy -
in fact, they're almost incompatible;
one emotion hardly leaves room for the other.
Both at once can produce unbearable turmoil.
- Robert Heinlein
When you find your path, you must not be afraid.
You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes.
Disappointment, defeat, and despair are
the tools God uses to show us the way.
- Paulo Coelho
You know, everybody makes mistakes when they are president.
- William J. Clinton
No one was ever named "Hero" for following the crowd.
Heroes set their own course.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Genuine heroes - no batteries needed -
bring lots of open-mind and at least a little courage.
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The common denominator of our heroes
is that each set their own course.
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Heroes act in spite of their fear,
while the rest of us act because of our fear.
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The world is moved along, not only
by the mighty shoves of its heroes,
but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes
of each honest worker.
- Helen Keller
Not all Heroes wear capes.
- On an Apple Inc. "Genius Bar" T-shirt
A hero may or may not lead other people,
but all heroes lead themselves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you want to be heroic,
Don't emulate your heroes,
learn from them.
Heroes don't follow anyone,
they set their own course.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Heroes do what the rest of us would do,
if only we had the courage.
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True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes,
but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
- Alfred North Whitehead
Use heroes as a springboard for inquiry
into the identity and nature of admirably human qualities.
Do not judge heroes -
neither to put them unquestioningly on a pedestal
nor to unkindly probe their flaws.
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There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go,
things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right,
you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself,
and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow
I say NO to the demands of the world.
I say YES to the longings of my own heart.
There is nothing I ever need to have.
There is nothing I ever need to do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
- Helen Keller
He who can no longer pause to wonder
and stand rapt in awe,
is as good as dead;
his eyes are closed.
- Albert Einstein
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
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The River of Life has no meaning,
no good, no bad, no better, no worse,
no love, no hate, no fear, no anger, no joy.
The River of Life has no judgment, no expectation.
The River of Life just IS.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If we have no peace,
it is because we have forgotten
that we belong to each other.
- Mother Teresa
No good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish Proverb
Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Where there is no accusation of "fault,"
there can be no anger.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it,
or who said it, no matter if I have said it,
unless it agrees with your own reason
and your own common sense.
- The Buddha
Clouds come floating into my life,
no longer to carry rain or usher storm,
but to add color to my sunset sky.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Say NO to the demands of the world.
Say YES to the longings of your own heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
I leave no trace of wings in the air,
but I am glad I have had my flight.
- Rabindranath Tagore
See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)
I was born on the prairies where the wind blew free
and there was nothing to break the light of the sun.
I was born where there were no enclosures.
- Geronimo
If I had no sense of humor,
I would long ago have committed suicide.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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