“Success lies not in eliminating our troubles and mistakes but in growing through and with them.”

— John C. Maxwell

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American author, speaker and pastor 1947

Steve Maraboli (1975)

Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 32

“Besides, life isn't meant to be safe. It's only in our mistakes, our errors, and our faults that we grow and truly live.”

Glenn Beck (1964) U.S. talk radio and television host

“The successful managers know that the best way for their people to learn and grow is through experience and that means taking chances and making errors.”

Robert W. Bly (1957) American writer

101 Ways to Make Every Second Count: Time Management Tips and Techniques for More Success With Less Stress (1999)

“A mistake to a successful mind is not a dead end, it gives them the determination to bounce back harder, in fact their success can be measured by how high they bounce back when they fail.”

Hamis Kiggundu (1984) Ugandan business magnate, Internet entrepreneur, philanthropist, and author

Quoted from his first book https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Success_and_Failure_Based_on_Reason_and_Reality, "Success and Failure Based on Reason and Reality" https://www.amazon.co.uk/SUCCESS-FAILURE-BASED-REASON-REALITY/dp/9970983903/ on Amazon, P.104 (July 2018)

“We can spend our days bemoaning our losses, or we can grow from them. Ultimately the choice is ours. We can be victims of circumstance or masters of our own fate, but make no mistake, we cannot be both.
The Walk - Epilogue Page 288”

Richard Paul Evans (1962) American writer

Source: The Walk

“Mistakes clear the path for success.”

Ron English (1959) American artist

Ron English's Fauxlosophy: Volume 2 (2022)

“You can get in trouble mistaking one for the other.”

Harlan Ellison (1934–2018) American writer

Introduction of "" (1977) in Shatterday (1990)
Context: I think love and sex are separate and only vaguely similar. Like the word bear and the word bare. You can get in trouble mistaking one for the other.

“When questions of “class” interests are eliminated from public controversy a victory is thereby gained for the possessing, conservative class, whose only hope of security lies in such elimination.”

James Connolly (1868–1916) Irish republican and socialist leader

Labour in Irish History (1919), p. 15

“As we grow older our sense of compassion becomes refined and matures; for we’ve received compassion for a lifetime of mistakes and mishaps.”

Gandolfo – (RJ Intindola)

2004

“The beauty of “spacing” children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones — which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones.”

Sydney J. Harris (1917–1986) American journalist

Leaving the Surface (1968)

“Success lies not in eliminating our troubles and mistakes but in growing through and with them.”

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