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I have learned more from my mistakes than from my successes.
Sir Humphrey Davy
It is a mistake to think that there are times when you can safely address a person without love.
Leo Tolstoy
If people refuse to look at you in a new light and they can only see you for what you were, only see you for the mistakes you've made, if they don't realize that you are not your mistakes, then they have to go.
Steve Maraboli
We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.
Lewis Thomas
If you insist on disavowing that which is ugly about what you do, you will never learn from your mistakes.
Cassandra Clare
An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.
Henri Frederic Amiel
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
Dale Carnegie
The closer people are to the truth, the more tolerant they are of the mistakes of others.
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.
Denis Waitley
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
Seek out people who aren't afraid of making mistakes and who, therefore, do make mistakes. Because of that, their work often isn't recognized, but they are precisely the kind of people who change the world and, after many mistakes, do something that will transform their own community completely.
Paulo Coelho
adj.: Mistaken at the top of one's voice.
Ambrose Bierce
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.
Mahatma Gandhi
A man should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
Alexander Pope
The first mistake in public business is the going into it.
Benjamin Franklin
Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.
Phyllis Therous
Faults are beauties in a lovers eye.
Theocritus
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.
Stephen Covey
No one is listening until you make a mistake.
Anon.
Bad people excuse their faults; wise people leave them.
Ben Johnston