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“It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent.”
Vincent Van Gogh
“Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.”
Vincent Van Gogh
“There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.”
Jonathan Swift
“It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.”
Jonathan Swift
“Anyone who thinks my story is anywhere near over is sadly mistaken.”
Donald Trump
“A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.”
Frank Lloyd Wright
“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
“Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.”
Ansel Adams
“How I Love Lucy was born? We decided that instead of divorce lawyers profiting from our mistakes, we'd profit from them.”
Lucille Ball
“Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.”
Edmund Burke
“Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.”
Edmund Burke
“There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go.”
Richard Bach
“We made too many wrong mistakes.”
Yogi Berra
“Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.”
Les Brown
“To be positive is to be mistaken at the top of one's voice.”
Ambrose Bierce
“Positive, adj.: Mistaken at the top of one's voice.”
Ambrose Bierce
“America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still.”
Edward Estlin Cummings
“Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.”
George Bernard Shaw
“The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.”
John Calvin Maxwell
“Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something.”
Morihei Ueshiba