The man who achieves makes many mistakes, but he never makes the biggest mistake of all - doing nothing


Benjamin Franklin

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The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.
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The only man who never makes a mistake is the one one who never does anything
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one who makes no mistakes makes nothing
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A bachelor is a man who never makes the same mistake once.
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Show us a man who never makes a mistake and we will show you a man who never makes anything. The cap...
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A person who makes no mistakes, generally makes nothing.
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One makes mistakes; that is life. But it is never a mistake to have loved.
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A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man find...
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Lord, deliver me from the person who never makes a mistake, and also from the person who makes the s...
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Although every person makes mistakes, not every mistake makes a person.
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Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who does nothing because he could only do a little
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The biggest mistake a liar makes is the one thing he thinks will work. Convincing them.
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Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
STEPHEN LEACOCK
It is only those who do nothing who makes no mistake.
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Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
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Many a man in love with a dimple makes a mistake of marrying the whole girl.
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Many a man in love with a dimple makes a mistake of marrying the whole girl
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The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything
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The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
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The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
EDWARD J. PHELPS
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
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The greatest general is he who makes the fewest mistakes.
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The only performance that makes it, that makes it all the way is the one that achieves madness.
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The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of the wise man is in his heart. -Benjamin Frank...
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The fellow who never makes a mistake takes his orders from one who does.
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People themselves makes a lots of mistakes and still loves himself, and they never forget a single m...
OM BENIWAL
I have made so many mistakes but I have learned a lot and I'm confident to say - he who never made a...
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He is always right who suspects that he makes mistakes
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Everyone makes mistakes. The important thing is to not make the same mistake twice.
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Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.
JOSH BILLINGS
Reason often makes mistakes but conscience never does.
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He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.
UNKNOWN
There never was a good war, or a bad peace. -Benjamin Franklin.
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The man who never makes a mistake always takes orders from one who does. No man or woman who tries t...
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Three-fourths of the mistakes a man makes are made because he does not really know what he thinks he...
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Mistakes Makes man to acknowledge fate.
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A person who makes few mistakes makes little progress.
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A person who makes few mistakes makes little progress.
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Monk... not monk but Andrian Monk makes mistakes if he makes then and we can.
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We regret for every mistake we’ve made in our lives. Everyone makes mistakes. Everyone may fall do...
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To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
PETER MCWILLIAMS
It is not the situation that makes the man, but the man who makes the situation.
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It is not the situation that makes the man, but the man who makes the situation.
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God Makes No Mistakes He Makes Divine Executive Decisions
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Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
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I always felt myself to be an unlucky person like Donald, who is a victim of so many circumstances. ...
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People believe practice makes perfect, but it doesn't. If you're making a tremendous amount ...
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There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes eve...
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There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes ev...
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Experience is what keeps a man who makes the same mistake twice from admitting it the third time aro...
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Many mistakes makes for a very smart person.
STEVEN MAGEE
The test of a mans character is not the mistakes he makes but the way he responds to them.
WILLIAM MOYERS
Well education makes you a man who is capable of doing anything systematically.
NISHI DE SILVA
I am Maradona, who makes goals, who makes mistakes. I can take it all, I have shoulders big enough t...
DIEGO MARADONA
For years, I've had a hankering for the portrait of Benjamin Franklin by Joseph Duplessis. Frank...
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The myth that young people should leave the nest at 18, never to return, started with iconic America...
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Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others...
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One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
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This is one of the disadvantages of wine, it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
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He wasn't the easiest to coach because he can get kind of grumpy if he makes a mistake, but he's a n...
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Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
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Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
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Victory goes to the player who makes the next to last mistake.
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Not planning for the inevitable is the biggest mistake many people make. It's a drag to think about ...
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If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistak...
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The shoemaker makes a good shoe because he makes nothing else.
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A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
JAMES JOYCE
A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
JAMES JOYCE
A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
JAMES JOYCE
Benjamin Franklin said the first thing you have to sell is yourself.
JOE LAUINGER
The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going.
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[Jackson said he has a] love-hate ... I love it when he makes plays, hate it when he makes mistakes.
SEAN TAYLOR
He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
SAMUEL JOHNSON
He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
SAMUEL JOHNSON
He who makes a beast of himself, gets rid of the pain of being a man.
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He makes no friends who never made a foe.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON
There is always room for a man of force, and he makes room for many.
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He makes a great row but does nothing.
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"The biggest mistake is throwing them all away..." People throw away all their F's and keep all thei...
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Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
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Sidney's never makes a mistake, he said to himself. We know that, too. What else can we depend on?
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I do not know which makes a man more conservative—to know nothing but the present, or nothing but t...
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I do not know which makes a man more conservative to know nothing but the present, or nothing but th...
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He makes no friends who never made a foe
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON
He makes no friend who never made a foe.
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He makes no friends who never made a foe.
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I have made mistakes, but I never made the mistake of claiming that I never made one.
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He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
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He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
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Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of ...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Tomorrow every fault is to be amended; but tomorrow never comes.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
To be thrown upon one's own resources, is to be cast into the very lap of fortune; for our faculties...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
It is foolish to lay out money for the purchase of repentance.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Most fools think they are only ignorant.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
The world is full of fools and faint hearts; and yet everyone has courage enough to bear the misfort...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
One should eat to live, not live to eat.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervad...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Don't judge men's wealth or godliness by their Sunday appearance.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
If you would keep your secret from an enemy,
tell it not to a friend.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be ...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN