Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
Success covers a multitude of blunders.
Whenever you make a mistake or get knocked down by life, don't look back at it too long. Mistakes are life's way of teaching you. Your capacity for occasional blunders is inseparable from your capacity to reach your goals. No one wins them all, and your failures, when they happen, are just part of your growth. Shake off your blunders. How will you know your limits without an occasional failure? Never quit. Your turn will come.
Every blunder behind us is giving a cheer for us, and only for those who were willing to fail are the dangers and splendors of life.
The greatest blunders, like the thickest ropes, are often compounded of a multitude of strands. Take the rope apart, separate it into the small threads that compose it, and you can break them one by one. You think, That is all there was! But twist them all together and you have something tremendous.
War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.
We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.
A clever man commits no minor blunders.
The capacity to blunder slightly is the real marvel of DNA. Without this special attribute, we would still be anaerobic bacteria and there would be no music.
Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.
Blunders are an inescapable feature of war, because choice in military affairs lies generally between the bad and the worse.
All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.
They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward.
The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins.
I'm more financially successful, but it just means the shopping blunders I make are bigger now.
There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.
A blunder at the right moment is better than cleverness at the wrong time.
O, wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, An' foolish notion.
Shake off your blunders. How will you know your limits without an occasional failure? Never quit. Your turn will come.
My great crime in the world is blunder I will get into scrapes without intention or any bad motive.
The remedy for all blunders, the cure of blindness, the cure of crime, is love.
The art of giving orders is not to try to rectify the minor blunders and not be swayed by petty doubts.
Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results.
The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but who give us, out of themselves, the ardent spirit and desire to act right, and leave us then, even through many blunders, to find out what our own form of right action is.
...all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing.
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