13 Quotes: A Positive Spin on Boo-Boos & Blunders

Fail faster.” ~@pamslim

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Do not fear mistakes. There are none.” ~Miles Davis

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No one that ever lived has ever had enough power, prestige, or knowledge
to overcome the basic condition of all life — you win some and you lose some.”
~Ken Keyes, Jr.

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Give me a fruitful error anytime, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections.”
~Vilfredo Pareto

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…you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons
than you do by being right for the wrong reasons.”
~Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

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The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.” ~Theodore Roosevelt

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If I had my life to live again. I’d make the same mistakes, only sooner.” ~Tallulah Bankhead

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No one’s really keeping track of how many times you screw up…so chill the fuck out.”
~Alex Noriega (cartoon)

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Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.” ~Sophia Loren

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An error doesn’t become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.” ~Orlando A. Battista

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Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn’t.” ~R. Buckminster Fuller

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The road to wisdom?
Well, it’s plain and simple to express:
Err and err again
But less and less and less.”
~Piet Hein

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No man fails who does his best…” ~Orison Swett Marden

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If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you.
What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.” ~Mary Pickford

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Failing as fast as I can!

UPDATE: After I published this list, I found a lovely bit by Desiree: The Gift of Failure

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