mistakes on Achievement

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.

“If one wants to be active, one mustn’t be afraid to do something wrong sometimes, not afraid to lapse into some mistakes. To be good — many people think that they’ll achieve it by doing no harm — and...

One of the reasons failure can be so crushing is that we set goals of success, instead of improvement and learning.

Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction.

Error, by force of contrast, enhances the triumph of Truth.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

We readily confess our little faults in order to suggest that we have no big ones.

I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.

A person that never climbs will never fall.

When people fail, we are inclined to find fault with them, but if you look more closely, you will find that God had some particular truth for them to learn, which the trouble they are in is to teach t...

Today is Yesterday's Pupil.

Perhaps the history of the errors of mankind, all things considered, is more valuable and interesting than that of their discoveries. Truth is uniform and narrow; it constantly exists, and does not se...

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

“My mistakes are my life.” How It Is

If a mistake is not a stepping stone, it is a mistake.

At eighteen, a self-assured Benjamin Franklin returned to Boston, the city he had fled just seven months earlier. Dressed in a fine new suit, with a watch on his wrist and a pocket full of coins, he p...

To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

"A step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction."

A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying… that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

We cannot afford to forget any experience, not even the most painful.

A stumble may prevent a fall.

Preaching Commentary Pastoral Letters Our text comes early in the pastoral letter of 1 Timothy, right after a brief welcome to the letter’s recipient and an exhortation to fight against the false t...

When you repeat a mistake, it is not a mistake anymore: it is a decision.

Help me, I pray, to be someone who tells the truth, even when that truth has to do with my mistakes, my sins. Help me see myself and my actions clearly. Give me the courage to admit when I’ve done wro...

All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field.

Pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

Loving father, there are times when it feels like we never get it right. We compare ourselves to others and we don’t measure up. It seems like we can never get our act together and live up to the stan...

We know mistakes were made.

I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn’t explain away afterwards.