To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.

Stubbornness is also determination. It's simply a matter of shifting from "won't power" to "will power.

—Peter McWilliams

In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts.

—Peter McWilliams

Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?

—Peter McWilliams

If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.

—Peter McWilliams

Resentment is anger directed at others—at what they did or did not do.

—Peter McWilliams

I make mistakes; I'll be the second to admit it.

—Jean Kerr

Mistakes are really not that big of a deal. In fact, as most of us acknowledge, we need to make mistakes in order to learn and to grow.

—Richard Carlson in The Big Book of Small Stuff

Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions
in the past.

—Tryon Edwards

How small the vastest of human catastrophes may seem at a distance of a few million miles.

—H. G. Wells