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"Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience." -- Denis Waitley "An error is the more dangerous the more truth it contains." -- Henri-Frederic Amiel "No one is listening until you make a mistake." -- Anonymous "Every man has his follies — and often they are the most interesting thing he has got." -- Josh Billings "There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from." -- Elizabeth Kubler-Ross "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." -- John Powell "Just because you made a mistake doesn't mean you are a mistake." -- Georgette Mosbacher "Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently." -- Henry Ford "No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness." -- Mary Wollstonecraft "The sages do not consider that making no mistakes is a blessing. They believe, rather, that the great virtue of man lies in his ablility to correct his mistakes and continually make a new man of himself." -- Wang Yang-Ming (1472-1529, Chinese Philosopher) "There is nothing completely wrong in this world, even a halted clock can be right twice a day." -- Paulo Coelho "Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life." -- Sophia Loren "Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new." -- Albert Einstein "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." -- James Joyce "Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person." -- Dr. David M. Burns "Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied." -- Pearl S. Buck "A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing." -- George Bernard Shaw "Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself." -- Eleanor Roosevelt "Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worth while achievement." --  Henry Ford "It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong." -- Abraham Lincoln "If I had my life to live over...I'd dare to make more mistakes next time." -- Nadine Stair "The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision." -- Maimonides "If you don't make mistakes, you aren't really trying." -- Coleman Hawkings