It is better for a leader to make a mistake in forgiving than to make a mistake in punishing.
Failure Quotes
Nothing here is flagged as misattributed. Shakespeare, the judge Lord Ellenborough, Ben Carson and Frederick William Robertson lead, and the sourced lines are all older and drier than the usual motivational material. Wilde, in Lady Windermere’s Fan (1892), says experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes, and in 1894 that ambition is the last refuge of the failure. Burns’s Scots Musical Museum (1787) has the bleakest of the three: now all is done that men can do, and all is done in vain.
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It is better for a leader to make a mistake in forgiving than to make a mistake in punishing.
Imagination is a force that can actually manifest a reality.
If one cannot have success, the next most agreeable thing is failure.
Genius is often only the power of making continuous efforts.
The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
There is no mistake; there has been no mistake; and there shall be no mistake.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.
Those who make no mistakes are making the biggest mistakes of all — they are attempting nothing new.
Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping.