"The greatest mistake you can make in life is to continually be afraid you will make one."

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

"Always acknowledge a fault frankly. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you opportunity to commit more."

"It's a mistake not to give people a chance to learn to depend on themselves while they are young."

"The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else. If it had been possible he would have settled the matter otherwise, and without bloodshed. He doesn't boast of his own death or of others'. But he does not repent. He suffers and keeps his mouth shut; if anything, others then exploit him, making him a myth, while he, the man worthy of esteem, was only a poor creature who reacted with dignity and courage in an event bigger than he was."

"Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted."

"One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results."

"The victim should have the right to end his life, if he wants. But I think it would be a great mistake. However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at. While there's life, there is hope."

"When you're too mad and too rattled to see straight, you're bound to make mistakes. You can't go on and on for years being miserable about a situation and not have it change you. You get so you can't stand yourself."

"We made too many wrong mistakes."

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

"Never mistake activity for achievement."

"Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out."

"It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous."

"The first mistake in public business is the going into it."