A Quote by Samuel Smiles

Those who aren't making mistakes probably aren't making anything.

Samuel Smiles

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Samuel Smiles
Scottish - Author
December 23, 1812 - April 16, 1904

Both teams are making mistakes. Florida's making these itsy-bitsy little ones, and Tennessee is making huge, gigantic mistakes.

Gary Danielson

Don't worry about making mistakes. In fact, the more mistakes you make, the more progress you are making. Just don't repeat the same mistakes.

Mike Michalowicz

... don't be afraid to screw up !... one of the key issues to learning is making mistakes ... if you're not making mistakes, you're probably not having a very good time

Robben Ford

If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.

John Wooden

If those people in power never made any mistakes, we'd be done for as a democracy. But people keep making mistakes. History is a series of mistakes.

Zephyr Teachout

If you aren't making any mistakes, you aren't innovating. If you're making the same mistakes, you aren't learning.

Rick Warren

Those who make no mistakes are making the biggest mistakes of all - they are attempting nothing new.

Anthony de Mello

Making mistakes is the privilege of the active - of those who can correct their mistakes and put them right.

Ingvar Kamprad

I am not afraid of making mistakes. But my mistakes were those that I could afford. That's very important: mistakes will happen but you must ensure that you keep them within limits you can afford.

Rakesh Jhunjhunwala

The fear of making a decision is the result of fearing to make a mistake - the truth is, the fear of mistakes has a greater impact on you than making the mistakes.

Bob Proctor

Critics hang around and wait for others to make mistakes. But the real doers of the world have not time for criticizing others. They are too busy doing, making mistakes, improving, making progress.

Wayne Dyer

You have to have the kind of personality where you're resilient and you can get up and keep moving and learn what there is. What I tell my employees is, 'I want you to make mistakes. If you're not making mistakes, you're not trying hard enough. But, when we make a mistake, let's all study it. Let's all learn from it. After that, we want to make different mistakes. We don't want to keep making the same mistakes.'

Trip Hawkins

Making mistakes is natural. Making mistakes is how we learn.

Robert Kiyosaki

At that time I was making the largest salary known on television and I didn't want to see it die because those were the years paying off when I wasn't making anything.