"Show me a man who makes no..." - Quote by Theodore Roosevelt
Show me a man who makes no mistakes, and I will show you a man who doesn't do things.
More by Theodore Roosevelt
“Nothing worth having was ever achieved without effort.”
“The fool who has not sense to discriminate between what is good and what is bad is well nigh as dangerous as the man who does discriminate and yet chooses the bad.”
“While the nation that has dared to be great, that has had the will and the power to change the destiny of the ages, in the end must die, yet no less surely the nation that has played the part of the weakling must also die; and whereas the nation that has done nothing leaves nothing behind it, the nation that has done a great work really continues, though in changed form, to live forevermore.”
More on Mistakes
“A mistake is only an error, it becomes a mistake when you fail to correct it”
“I was going to tape some records onto a cassette, but I got the wires backwards. I erased the all of the records. When I returned them to my friend, he said, "Hey, these records are all blank."”
“The only way to even approach doing something perfectly is through experience, and experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.”