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“The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.”

“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”

“Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.”

“I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.”

“In the game of life, it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.”

“Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.”

“Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.”

“It was a great mistake, my being born a man, I would have been much more successful as a seagull or a fish. As it is, I will always be a stranger who never feels at home, who does not really want and is not really wanted, who can never belong, who must be a little in love with death!”

“Success ... seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.”

“Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.”

“Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it / immediately.”

“Be proud of your mistakes. Well, proud may not be exactly the right word, but respect them, treasure them, be kind to them, learn from them. And, more than that, and more important than that, make them. Make mistakes. Make great mistakes, make wonderful mistakes, make glorious mistakes. Better to make a hundred mistakes than to stare at a blank piece of paper too scared to do anything wrong.”

“"Failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.”

“I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.”

“Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?”

“I made one great mistake in my life-when I signed the letter to President Roosevelt recommending that atom bombs be made but there was some justification-the danger that the Germans would make them.”

“I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.”