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Those who fly always first get out on the edge. If you want to seize an opportunity, you must take a risk. If you want to grow, you must make mistakes. If you want to reach your potential, you will have to take chances. If you don't, you will be resigned to a life of mediocrity. The people who don't make mistakes end up working for those who do. And in the end, they often end up regretting the safe life they lived. —
- John Maxwell
People who fail forward are able to see errors or negative experiences as a regular part of life, learn from them, and then move on. They persevere in order to achieve their purpose in life.
- John Maxwell
Every time we make an excuse, we fail to learn from our mistakes.
- John Maxwell
The fellow who never makes a mistake takes his orders from one who does.
- John Maxwell
Playwright George Bernard Shaw asserted, A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. To overcome fear and break the cycle, you have to be willing to recognize that you will spend much of your life making mistakes.
- John Maxwell
Success leads to the greatest failure, which is pride. Failure leads to the greatest success, which is humility and learning.
- John Maxwell
The ability to learn from mistakes has value not just in business but in all aspects of life. If you live to learn, then you will really learn to live.
- John Maxwell
Some of the reason why we marry the wrong people is that we don't really understand ourselves.
- Alain de Botton
Experience," says the proverb, "is a hard school to attend, but fools will learn in no
- JC Ryle
It takes less courage to end your life in a burst of glory than to face the mistakes you've made and start over.
- Lynn Austin
If you desire to please God with the decision you make and afterward it proves to be a mistake, it's an error not an end.
- Lysa TerKeurst
God says if we will direct our worship to Him, He will give us strength to turn from the mistakes of yesterday and provide portions for our needs of today.
- Lysa TerKeurst