mistakes

Business demands faith, compels earnestness, requires courage, is honestly selfish, is penalized for mistakes, and is the essence of life.

To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity.

"Who made you?" a boy of ten was asked. He stood in thoughtful silence for a moment and then, measuring the length of a baby with his hands, replied: "God made me this long, and I "growed the rest." The mistake that was his in leaving out God in his growth suggests the truth that we are partly self-made men. God and parenthood and birthplace partly make us, but we must make the rest by will and work.

People will listen a great deal more patiently while you explain your mistakes than when you explain your successes.

Anyone who doesn't make mistakes isn't trying hard enough.

I will not quarrel with a slight mistake, Such as our nature's frailty may excuse.

An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject, and how to avoid them.

The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.

It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all to prudent.

But a weed is simply a plant that wants to grow where people want something else. In blaming nature, people mistake the culprit. Weeds are people's idea, not nature's.