A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
- Topic: Action, Life, Mistakes
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Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
Religion is a great force—the only real motive force in the world; but what you fellows don't understand is that you must get a man through his own religion and not through yours.
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A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.
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The less you respond to negative people, the positive your life will become.
The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
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Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the now the primary focus of your life.
Creativity is often blocked to trying to be perfect. Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes.
You will make all kinds of mistakes; but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you cannot hurt the world or even seriously distress her.
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
