Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
- James Joyce
Trust your own instinct.
Your mistakes might as well be your own,
instead of someone else's.
- Billy Wilder
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
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
- Oscar Wilde
I never make stupid mistakes.
Only very, very clever ones.
- John Peel
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
Freedom is not worth having if it
does not connote freedom to err.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
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
It's okay to make mistakes.
Mistakes are our teachers - they help us to learn.
- John Bradshaw
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
There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth;
not going all the way, and not starting.
- The Buddha
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
Success seems to be connected with action.
Successful people keep moving.
They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
- Conrad Hilton
You know, everybody makes mistakes when they are president.
- William J. Clinton
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
Remember, there are no mistakes, only lessons.
Love yourself, trust your choices, and everything is possible.
- Cherie-Carter Scotts
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
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
There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth
- not going all the way and not starting.
- The Buddha
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
The process of scientific discovery is,
in effect, a continual flight from wonder.
- Albert Einstein
If I have seen further, it is
by standing on the shoulders of giants.
- Isaac Newton
It is by going down into the abyss
that we recover the treasures of life.
Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
- Joseph Campbell
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 voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes
but in having new eyes.
- Marcel Proust
The greatest discovery of any generation
is that a human being
can alter his life by
altering his attitude
- William James
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 greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -
it is the illusion of knowledge.
- Daniel J. Boorstin
He who never made a mistake,
never made a discovery.
- Samuel Smiles
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley
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 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
As you awaken,
may your dreams greet you by name,
and may you answer, "Yes!"
- Mary Anne Radmacher
When written in Chinese, the word "crisis"
is composed of two characters.
One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
- John F. Kennedy
No one was ever named "Hero" for following the crowd.
Heroes set their own course.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Attitude is everything.
- Charles Swindoll
Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
One does not discover new lands without consenting
to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide
Choose to soar. Choose to fly your dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
- John F. Kennedy
As the evening beckons with the promise of tomorrow...
may your gratitude rise up and with strength answer, "yes."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I'm saving that rocker for the day
when I feel as old as I really am.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
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
The future belongs to those
who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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
I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott
Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.
- Bill Cosby
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
Don't die with your music still inside you.
Listen to your intuitive inner voice
and find what passion stirs your soul.
- Wayne Dyer
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
- Babe Ruth
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller
Life is always lived in the eye-of-the-storm
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
Choose to be as a young child -
fully awake, eager for the next experience.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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