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Self-respect is often mistaken for arrogance
when in reality it is the opposite.
When we can recognize all our good qualities
as well as or faults with neutrality,
we can start to appreciate ourselves
as we would a dear friend
and experience the comfortable inner glow of respect.
To embrace the journey towards our full potential
we need to become our own loving teacher and coach.
Spurring ourselves on to become better human beings,
we develop true regard for ourselves,
and our life will become sacred.
- Osho
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
- Carl Jung
To err is human, to forgive divine.
- Alexander Pope
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Anyone who has never made a mistake,
has never tried anything new.
- Albert Einstein
Freedom is not worth having if it
does not connote freedom to err.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The biggest mistake we could ever make in our lives
is to think we work for anybody but ourselves.
- Brian Tracy
He who never made a mistake,
never made a discovery.
- Samuel Smiles
It is a mistake to look too far ahead.
Only one link in the chain of destiny
can be handled at a time.
- Winston Churchill
Many people mistake our work for our vocation.
Our vocation is the love of Jesus.
- Mother Teresa
A person who never made a mistake
never tried anything new.
- Albert Einstein
Guilt says I've done something wrong;
... shame says there is something wrong with me.
Guilt says I've made a mistake;
... shame says I am a mistake.
Guilt says what did was not good;
... shame says I am no good.
- John Bradshaw
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
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
Without music, life would be a mistake...
I would only believe in a God who knew how to dance.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.
- Edward R. Murrow
He who joyfully marches in rank and file
has already earned my contempt.
He has been given a large brain by mistake,
since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
- Albert Einstein
Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming
that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth
- not going all the way and not starting.
- The Buddha
Remember, there are no mistakes, only lessons.
Love yourself, trust your choices, and everything is possible.
- Cherie-Carter Scotts
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
- James Joyce
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
There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth;
not going all the way, and not starting.
- The Buddha
It's okay to make mistakes.
Mistakes are our teachers - they help us to learn.
- John Bradshaw
I've learned that mistakes can often be
as good a teacher as success.
- Jack Welch
My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong,
who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
- Bono
Achievement seems to be connected with action.
Successful men and women keep moving.
They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
- Conrad Hilton
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
Success seems to be connected with action.
Successful people keep moving.
They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
- Conrad Hilton
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
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
A doctor can bury his mistakes
but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
I never make stupid mistakes.
Only very, very clever ones.
- John Peel
Trust your own instinct.
Your mistakes might as well be your own,
instead of someone else's.
- Billy Wilder
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
- Oscar Wilde
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
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
You know, everybody makes mistakes when they are president.
- William J. Clinton
Every tomorrow has two handles.
We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety
or the handle of faith.
- Henry Ward Beecher
There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein
When written in Chinese, the word "crisis"
is composed of two characters.
One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
- John F. Kennedy
There are only two or three human stories,
and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely
as if they had never happened before.
- Willa Cather
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
Two little words that can make the difference: START NOW.
- Mary C. Crowley
There are two kinds of failures:
those who thought and never did,
and those who did and never thought.
- Laurence J. Peter
People generally complain about only two things:
when they have less than yesterday,
and when they have less than their neighbor.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I had three chairs in my house;
one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
- Henry David Thoreau
Pride comes in two flavors -
choose honor, not ego.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When I am getting ready to reason with a man,
I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself
and what I am going to say
and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
- Abraham Lincoln
Pride comes in two flavors -
be careful which you choose -
choose honor, not ego.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We have two ears and one mouth so that
we can listen twice as much as we speak.
- Epictetus
You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
- old proverb often attributed to David Lloyd George
Unity can only be manifested by the Binary.
Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two.
- The Buddha
A wise man hears one word and understands two.
- Yiddish Proverb
Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands.
One for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
- Audrey Hepburn
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated;
you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
- David Lloyd George
There are two things to aim at in life:
first, to get what you want,
and after that to to enjoy it.
- Logan Pearsall Smith
The Two Great Lessons of Life: Choose Love & Trust God.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are two lasting bequests we can give our children
One is roots, the other is wings.
- Hodding Carter
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
- Aristotle
Life change comes about in two complementary ways -
the "aha" moment, which occurs in a flash of insight;
and the conscious redesigning of habitual behaviors,
which is a lifelong project.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
This communicating of a man's self to his friend
works two contrary effects;
for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.
- Francis Bacon
A great gift requires two people,
the giver and the receiver.
Think of a football pass -
skillfully catching the pass, the gift,
is fully as important, and difficult, as throwing it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment
and the other by acts of love. Power based on love
is a thousand times more effective and permanent
then the one derived from fear of punishment.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
- Mencius
Winners must have two things:
definite goals and a burning desire to achieve them.
- Anonymous
Prejudice is a two-edged sword.
Like the steel sort of sword, it's very sharp, very useful,
and very dangerous if not properly mastered.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons
to promote the good and happiness of one another.
- Eustace Budgell
To live a satisfying life requires two steps...
1. Plan your life goals.
2. Act on your plan - every day.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"I can forgive, but I cannot forget,"
is only another way of saying, I will not forgive.
Forgiveness ought to be like a canceled note -
torn in two, and burned up,
so that it never can be shown against one.
- Henry Ward Beecher
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