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Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
- James Joyce
I never make stupid mistakes.
Only very, very clever ones.
- John Peel
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
- Oscar Wilde
Trust your own instinct.
Your mistakes might as well be your own,
instead of someone else's.
- Billy Wilder
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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
My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong,
who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
- Bono
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
- Carl Jung
Freedom is not worth having if it
does not connote freedom to err.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I claim to be a simple individual liable
to err like any other fellow mortal.
I own, however, that I have humility enough
to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
To err is human, to forgive divine.
- Alexander Pope
It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom.
It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest
might weaken and the wisest might err.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth;
not going all the way, and not starting.
- The Buddha
I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure.
I make mistakes, I am out of control
and at times hard to handle.
But if you can't handle me at my worst,
then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.
- Marilyn Monroe
It's okay to make mistakes.
Mistakes are our teachers - they help us to learn.
- John Bradshaw
Success seems to be connected with action.
Successful people keep moving.
They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
- Conrad Hilton
When you find your path, you must not be afraid.
You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes.
Disappointment, defeat, and despair are
the tools God uses to show us the way.
- Paulo Coelho
I've learned that mistakes can often be
as good a teacher as success.
- Jack Welch
Achievement seems to be connected with action.
Successful men and women keep moving.
They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
- Conrad Hilton
You know, everybody makes mistakes when they are president.
- William J. Clinton
There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth
- not going all the way and not starting.
- The Buddha
Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth,
and if a man does not know what a thing is,
it is at least an increase in knowledge
if he knows what it is not.
- Carl Jung
Remember, there are no mistakes, only lessons.
Love yourself, trust your choices, and everything is possible.
- Cherie-Carter Scotts
Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition.
The immature mind often mistakes one for the other,
or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy -
in fact, they're almost incompatible;
one emotion hardly leaves room for the other.
Both at once can produce unbearable turmoil.
- Robert Heinlein
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself,
and know that everything in life has purpose.
There are no mistakes, no coincidences,
all events are blessings given to us to learn from.
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Choose what lies in the shadows to be a matter
for discovery and adventure, rather than fear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If I have seen further, it is
by standing on the shoulders of giants.
- Isaac Newton
The process of scientific discovery is,
in effect, a continual flight from wonder.
- Albert Einstein
It is by going down into the abyss
that we recover the treasures of life.
Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
- Joseph Campbell
There is no logical way to the discovery
of these elemental laws.
There is only the way of intuition,
which is helped by a feeling
for the order lying behind the appearance.
- Albert Einstein
The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes
but in having new eyes.
- Marcel Proust
Look closely... See with new eyes...
Don't just pass by what is familiar without a thought.
Pay attention and look closely.
There is beauty - there is discovery -
there in a whole new world hiding
beneath the face of the familiar.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There's no wrong, only discovery...
- Byron Katie
The greatest discovery of any generation
is that a human being
can alter his life by
altering his attitude
- William James
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -
it is the illusion of knowledge.
- Daniel J. Boorstin
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley
He who never made a mistake,
never made a discovery.
- Samuel Smiles
Every day is a new day -
a day for new beginnings, new dreams, new action -
a day for challenge, adventure, and discovery.
TODAY, what is your goal?
What is your dream?
What action are you taking to further your goals and dreams?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The basic discovery about any people is the discovery
of the relationship between men and women.
- Pearl S. Buck
Yesterday is like a dung heap;
you can complain about the smell,
or you can use it to fertilize tomorrow's garden.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It's not the size of the dog in the fight,
it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems,
but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
- Herm Albright
The person who says it cannot be done
should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
- Chinese proverb
Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
Fly Life on Free Wings, and Sing to its Glory.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott
No one was ever named "Hero" for following the crowd.
Heroes set their own course.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
Life is always lived in the eye-of-the-storm
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know that the greatest fear is fear of the unknown.
Seek to meet the unknown with courage and a sense of adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
The future belongs to those
who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams,
you can enroll the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
As the evening beckons with the promise of tomorrow...
may your gratitude rise up and with strength answer, "yes."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
It is our choices ... that show what we truly are,
far more than our abilities.
- J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets)
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
- Joseph Campbell
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
Choose to be as a young child -
fully awake, eager for the next experience.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A ship in harbor is safe -
but that is not what ships are for.
- John A. Shedd
Courage doesn't always roar.
Sometimes courage is the quiet voice
at the end of the day, saying,
"I will try again tomorrow."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
It's never too late -
never too late to start over,
never too late to be happy.
- Jane Fonda
The jump is so frightening
between where I am,
and where I want to be.
Because of all I may become,
I will close my eyes and leap.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Dumbo! C'mon, fly! Open them ears!
The magic feather was just a gag!
You can fly! Honest, you can!
- Timothy Q. Mouse in the movie Dumbo
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
- Babe Ruth
Nothing in life is to be feared.
It is only to be understood.
- Marie Curie
Choose to soar. Choose to fly your dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I can't go back to yesterday -
because I was a different person then.
- Lewis Carroll
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White
Winners Dream Big Dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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