For my display at school:
“Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.”
– Benjamin Franklin
“A man’s errors are his portals of discovery”
– James Joyce
“Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.”
– Oscar Wilde
“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”
– Albert Einstein
“I’ve learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success”
– Jack Welch, Straight from the Gut
“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!”
– Alfred Adler
“You may make mistakes, but you are not a failure until you start blaming someone else”
– Anonymous
“Learn from the mistakes of others-you can never live long enough to make them all yourself.”
-John Luther
“The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.”
– Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People
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