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Punishing honest mistakes stifles creativity. I want people moving and shaking the earth and they're going to make mistakes.

If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.

Don't be afraid in nature: one must be bold, at the risk of having been deceived and making mistakes.

Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.

Suppose you were working at your job one day, and you made a little mistake. Then all of a sudden a red light went on over your desk, and fifteen thousand people stood up and yelled at you that you sucked?

How would you like a job where when you made a mistake, a big red light goes on and 18,000 people boo?

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

In examining the potential of individuals, we must focus on their strengths and not just their mistakes. We cannot be limited by what they may have spilled in the kitchen.

The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

Anyone who relies exclusively on television for his or her knowledge of the world is making a serious mistake.

The fellow who never makes a mistake takes his orders from one who does.

A great many people mistake opinions for thought.

Sometimes I think I could have got some better results if I had a different mentality; if I could have pushed hard and attacked. But then I would have had a good chance of making a mistake.

We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.

A free people, free to believe as we wish, free to speak our minds, free to raise our children as we see fit, will, make no mistake about it, endure.

Too many critics mistake the deliberations of the Congress for its decisions.

I believe in recovery, and I believe that as a role model I have the responsibility to let young people know that you can make a mistake and come back from it.

I had come to regard the U.S. Senate's rejection of the League of Nations as a tragic mistake.

You grow up by making mistakes. I've made a ton of them, but as long as I keep on failing better, I don't mind.