Mistakes

The fellow who never makes a mistake takes his orders from one who does.

The fellow who never makes a mistake takes his orders from one who does.

John C. Maxwell

It's not what we don't know that gets us in trouble, it's what we know for sure that just ain't so.

It's not what we don't know that gets us in trouble, it's what we know for sure that just ain't so.

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent.

Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.

Everything tells me that I am about to make a wrong decision, but making mistakes is just part of life. What does the world want of me? Does it want me to take no risks, to go back to where I came from because I didn't have the courage to say 'yes' to life?

Everything tells me that I am about to make a wrong decision, but making mistakes is just part of life. What does the world want of me? Does it want me to take no risks, to go back to where I came from because I didn't have the courage to say 'yes' to life?

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.

Never get married in college; it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake.

Never get married in college; it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake.

Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.

Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.

Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.

History isn't just the story of bad people doing bad things. It's quite as much a story of people trying to do good things. But somehow, something goes wrong.

History isn't just the story of bad people doing bad things. It's quite as much a story of people trying to do good things. But somehow, something goes wrong.

Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.

Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.

Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.

Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.