Nixon's grand mistake was his failure to understand that Americans are forgiving, and if he had admitted error early and apologized to the country, he would have escaped.
Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.
You have to risk failure to succeed. The important thing is not to make one single mistake that will jeopardize the future.
I also feel that I have been very honest with my friends, my family and also with the public about the mistakes that I've made and the challenges that I've gone through.
Start a part-time business and make as many mistakes as you possibly can while you still have your daytime job.
Even when you have doubts, take that step. Take chances. Mistakes are never a failure - they can be turned into wisdom.
If we have a chance of succeeding and bringing stability and democracy to Iraq, it will mean learning from our mistakes, not denying them and not ignoring them.
People do make mistakes and I think they should be punished. But they should be forgiven and given the opportunity for a second chance. We are human beings.
Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.
The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.
I play the father in the scene when Will and Tommy go back to Tommy's old apartment. It was a big mistake. I hope not to be in the next movie I direct.
Even when we make mistakes, we hope others will love us in spite of our shortcomings - even if we don't deserve it.
There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations.
Through the history of rock n' roll, you see lots of bands making the mistake of putting on the tights when they get to arenas. Don't do that.
When I write software, I know that it will fail, either due to my own mistake, or due to some other cause.
My dad worked for Nestle for 26 years and ended up being the mayor of our hometown. One of the lessons I learned from him was to never mistake kindness for weakness.
My career was full of struggles and dreams, disappointments and peaks and valleys. But there was no Twitter, no Facebook or TMZ. Young actors could make mistakes and not become the focus of tabloids.
I've made mistakes before of doing different projects just based on my dreams, my hopes, my thing, and not really thinking about my customers.
I have an intuition, and usually my intuition is right. I have a feeling for whether a role will be good or bad for me, and I almost never make a mistake.
The three biggest fashion mistakes are cheap suits, shoes, and shirts. Spend your money on something good.
I understand that I'm not perfect. I made mistakes and I had a hand in everything that's happened to me, good and bad.
