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We have to be willing to forge out our own path, make our own mistakes and learn from our own mistakes, and from the mistakes go on to achievement.
Speech (1969)
Bury your mistakes.
You can make a lot of mistakes and still recover if you run an efficient operation. Or you can be brilliant and still go out of business if you're too inefficient.
If all else fails, immortality can always be achieved by a spectacular mistake.
There is no harm in being sometimes wrong, especially if one is promptly found out.
Essays in Biography (1963)
It is a good thing to make mistakes so long as you're found out quickly.
Worrying about the past or the future isn't productive. When you start chastising yourself for past mistakes, or seeing disaster around every corner, stop and take a breath and ask yourself what you can do right now to succeed.
I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.
Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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