#takes

I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues. ↗

— Duke Ellington

#energy #i #merely #pout #some

I shake my head. "Remember, Mother. There are no mistakes." She smiles through her tears, leaning in to kiss my cheek "No mistakes, my angel. ↗

— Michelle Zink

#love #mistakes #family

When the watermelons were as large as a child's head, the women boiled them, but they collapsed into a tasteless green mush that no one could eat, not the children, not the cow. ↗

— Annie Proulx

#historical #humorous #mistakes #food

In the end, the only way is to be better than that person who let you down... and better than the monster you used to be... ↗

— Paul Nat

#life-lessons #mistakes #inspirational

It's said that a wise person learns from his mistakes. A wiser one learns from others' mistakes. But the wisest person of all learns from others's successes. ↗

— John C. Maxwell

#mistakes #wise #leadership

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

#life

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not. ↗

— Carl Jung

#does #foundations #increase #know #knowledge

As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes. ↗

— Mel Brooks

#gonna #long #make #mistakes #spinning

Maybe you expected marriage to be perfect - I guess that's where you and I are different. See, I thought it would be all about making mistakes, but doing it with someone who's there to remind you what you learned along the way. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#marriage #mistakes #love

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there. ↗

— Stevie Wonder

#character #get #keep #may #takes