"The greatest mistake a person can make..." - Quote by Elbert Hubbard
The greatest mistake a person can make is to be afraid of making one.
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“I have no perfect panacea for human ills. And even if I had I would not attempt to present a system of philosophy between the soup and fish.”
“Every life is its own excuse for being, and to deny or refute the untrue things that are said of you is an error in judgment. All wrong recoils upon the doer, and the person who makes wrong statements about others is themselves to be pitied, not the person they vilify. It is better to be lied about than to lie. At the last no one can harm us but ourselves.”
“He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.”
More on Mistakes
“It is not our mistakes that define who we are; it is how we recover from those mistakes.”
“It is better to make a mistake with full force of your being than to carefully avoid mistakes with a trembling spirit.”
“In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.”
More on Fear
“Repression is the only lasting philosophy. The dark deference of fear and slavery, my friend, will keep the dogs obedient to the whip, as long as this roof shuts out the sky.”
“Knowledge is the antidote to fear”
“Every entrepreneur deals with fears of failure. However, the truly successful know how to face these fears and keep on working.”