A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to read more

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.

If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.

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.

A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

What do you first do when you learn to swim? You make mistakes, do you not? And what happens? You read more

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!

Well, what I tried to do is simply to get out on the land. And when I came to Washington, read more

Well, what I tried to do is simply to get out on the land. And when I came to Washington, I think one of the mistakes we made early on was kind of having an ideological dispute up in the Congress.

I fear those big words which make us so unhappy.

I fear those big words which make us so unhappy.

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.

The greatest mistake you can make is to be continually fearing you will make one.

The greatest mistake you can make is to be continually fearing you will make one.