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My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong,
who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
- Bono
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To err is human, to forgive divine.
- Alexander Pope
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
- Carl Jung
Remember, there are no mistakes, only lessons.
Love yourself, trust your choices, and everything is possible.
- Cherie-Carter Scotts
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Freedom is not worth having if it
does not connote freedom to err.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
- James Joyce
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
I've learned that mistakes can often be
as good a teacher as success.
- Jack Welch
It's okay to make mistakes.
Mistakes are our teachers - they help us to learn.
- John Bradshaw
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
- Oscar Wilde
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
Achievement seems to be connected with action.
Successful men and women keep moving.
They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
- Conrad Hilton
Success seems to be connected with action.
Successful people keep moving.
They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
- Conrad Hilton
There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth
- not going all the way and not starting.
- The Buddha
I never make stupid mistakes.
Only very, very clever ones.
- John Peel
A doctor can bury his mistakes
but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth;
not going all the way, and not starting.
- The Buddha
Trust your own instinct.
Your mistakes might as well be your own,
instead of someone else's.
- Billy Wilder
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
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
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
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
You know, everybody makes mistakes when they are president.
- William J. Clinton
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
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
Anyone who has never made a mistake,
has 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
He who never made a mistake,
never made a discovery.
- Samuel Smiles
The biggest mistake we could ever make in our lives
is to think we work for anybody but ourselves.
- Brian Tracy
A person who never made a mistake
never tried anything new.
- Albert Einstein
Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.
- Edward R. Murrow
Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming
that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Many people mistake our work for our vocation.
Our vocation is the love of Jesus.
- Mother Teresa
Without music, life would be a mistake...
I would only believe in a God who knew how to dance.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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
Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland
Forgiveness is an act of self-love and respect.
- don Miguel Ruiz
It is our choices ... that show what we truly are,
far more than our abilities.
- J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets)
Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What lies behind us and what lies before us
are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
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No amount of self-improvement can make up
for a lack of self-acceptance.
- Anonymous
No one was ever named "Hero" for following the crowd.
Heroes set their own course.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Weariness comes, on some days, from lack of service to self.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
Happiness blooms
in the presence of self-respect,
and the absence of ego.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
Grin your smile; giggle your laugh; unfurl your joy;
dash the last trace of your self-consciousness;
and cavort your most uninhibited play.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One important key to success is self-confidence.
An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
- Arthur Ashe
Real excellence and humility are
not incompatible one with the other,
on the contrary they are twin sisters.
- Jean Baptiste Lacordaire
Listen to the compass of your heart.
All you need lies within you.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Ninety-nine percent of who you are
is invisible and untouchable.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?
- Henry David Thoreau
Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Don't live your life to please other people.
- Oprah Winfrey
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
Be that self which one truly is.
- Soren Kierkegaard
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
- Mark Twain
When I let go of what I am,
I become what I might be.
- Lao Tzu
No one is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
Goes the song, "we change, we change."
But the music is still mine.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I'm not a genius.
I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Other people do not have to change
for us to experience peace of mind.
- Gerald Jampolsky
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