What do you first do when you learn to swim? You make mistakes, do you not? And what happens? You make other mistakes, and when you have made all the mistakes you possibly can without drowning - and some of them many times over - what do you find? That you can swim? Well - life is just the same as learning to swim! Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live!
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A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
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More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying them.
More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying them.
All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.
All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.
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You cannot step into the same river twice.
I have learned more from my mistakes than from my successes.
I have learned more from my mistakes than from my successes.
