If I had to live my life again, I’d make the same mistakes, only sooner.

Tallulah Bankhead

He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Samuel Smiles

If you want to succeed, double your failure rate.

Thomas Watson, IBM pioneer. Once a piano peddler, the asthmatic Watson turned IBM into a powerful company in the 1950s, controlling over 90% of all information processing machine of the time.

Be stubborn, but not when life is trying to tell you the opposite of what you want to hear, otherwise don’t blame destiny or God for your own mistakes.

3M

Learn from the mistakes of others.
You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.

Eleanor Roosevelt

So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because that’s where you will find success. On the far side of failure.

Thomas J. Watson, Sr.

If you can’t make a mistake, you can’t make anything.

Marva Collins

It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.

Teddy Roosevelt

You can practice shooting eight hours a day, but if your technique is wrong, then all you become is very good at shooting the wrong way. Get the fundamentals down and the level of everything you do will rise.

Micheal Jordan

Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who does nothing because he could only do a little.

Edmund Burke.