Assert your right to make a few mistakes. If people can't accept your imperfections, that's their fault.

—Dr. David M. Burns

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Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.

—Dr. David M. Burns

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Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.

—Dr. David M. Burns

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We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.

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Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.

We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.

—Cato the Elder

Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.

—Benjamin Disraeli

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