Variant: You will make all kinds of mistakes; but as long as you are generous and true and also fierce you cannot hurt the world or even seriously distress her. She was meant to be wooed and won by youth.
Source: My Early Life: A Roving Commission (1930), Chapter 4 (Sandhurst).
Source: My Early Life, 1874-1904
Rodrigo Duterte (1945) Filipino politician and the 16th President of the Philippines
Duterte to New York Times: ‘You better stop your publishing’ https://globalnation.inquirer.net/155506/duterte-new-york-times-better-stop-publishing <br class="br">Targeted remarks to personalities and institutions
“Tell her I am seriously hurt; how seriously I cannot yet say.”
James A. Garfield (1831–1881) American politician, 20th President of the United States (in office in 1881)
Message to his wife on being shot (2 July 1881), in The Life and Public Services of James A. Garfield (1881) by E. E. Brown, p. 217 http://books.google.com/books?id=vCAFAAAAYAAJ <br class="br">1880s <br class="br">Context: Tell her I am seriously hurt; how seriously I cannot yet say. I am myself, and hope she will come to me soon. I send my love to her.
Hillary Clinton (1947) American politician, senator, Secretary of State, First Lady
Presidential campaign (April 12, 2015 – 2016), (July 28, 2016)
“I was glad to be with her, but it also kind of hurt, and it hurt when I wasn't with her, too.”
Rick Riordan book The Battle of the Labyrinth
Source: The Battle of the Labyrinth
Hyman George Rickover (1900–1986) United States admiral
Variations of this quote have been attributed to a number of people, including Eleanor Roosevelt, Samuel Levenson, and Lao Tzu; there is no solid support for any such attribution.
Misattributed
Joss Whedon (1964) American director, writer, and producer for television and film
DVD commentary for Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode 2-14 "Innocence"
“Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself”
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States
Cited as a piece of anonymous folk-wisdom from the 1940s onwards https://books.google.com/books?id=iNkWAQAAMAAJ&dq=%22Learn+from+the+mistakes+of+others.+You+can%27t+live+long+enough+to+make+them+all+yourself%22&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=%22make+them+all+yourself%22. Not attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt until 2001 https://books.google.com/books?id=ctxi36FCi18C&pg=PA151&dq=%22Learn+from+the+mistakes+of+others%22+%22live+long%22+roosevelt&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiI_sD5mqDLAhWIKGMKHb8HAZ0Q6AEIHTAA#v=onepage&q=%22Learn%20from%20the%20mistakes%20of%20others%22%20%22live%20long%22%20roosevelt&f=false. <br class="br">Disputed
“Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.”
Groucho Marx (1890–1977) American comedian
