"I firmly believe that you live and learn, and if you don't learn from past mistakes, then you need to be drug out and shot."

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"I firmly believe that you live and learn, and if you don't learn from past mistakes, then you need to be drug out and shot."

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"Nixon's grand mistake was his failure to understand that Americans are forgiving, and if he had admitted error early and apologized to the country, he would have escaped."

Bob Woodward, American Journalist

Mistake, Failure, Americans, Country

"A mistake is a stepping stone to success."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

Mistake, Success, Learning, Failure

"You're not the only one who's made mistakes, but they're the only things that you can truly call your own."

Billy Joel, American Musician

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"Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

Mistake, Faults

"We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

Mistake, Faults, Order

"Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

Mistake, Fault, Quarrels

"So many times it seemed like there were chances to stop things before they started. Or even stop them in midstream. But it was even worse when you knew in that very moment that there was still time to save yourself, and yet you couldn't even budge."

Sarah Dessen, American Author

Mistake, Regret, Awareness, Time, Choice

"It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

Mistake, Fault

"It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

Mistake, Fault, Man, Will

"Over the last 15 months, we've traveled to every corner of the United States. I've now been in 57 states? I think one left to go."

Barack Obama, American President

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"I got space from Travis Air Force Base, went back to the Philippine Islands and made it a point to meet the only American casting director in the Philippines. I was off and running."

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"Back in the old Corp, we weren't training those privates to infiltrate into the peacetime Marine Corp. We were training those privates to go to Vietnam."

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"There was a huge, tremendous amount of disabled veterans and the Veteran's Administration just wasn't geared up for it. I know for a fact that it's getting better and better."

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"I honestly do feel that I am a role model for young people."

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"I disagree with a lot of those changes, however at the end of the day - I go down to recruit graduation at least once or twice a year."

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"Even though I disagree with many of the changes, when I see the privates graduate at the end of the day, when they walk off that drill field at the end of the ceremony, they are still fine privates; outstanding, well motivated privates."

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"Nixon's grand mistake was his failure to understand that Americans are forgiving, and if he had admitted error early and apologized to the country, he would have escaped."

"A mistake is a stepping stone to success."

"You're not the only one who's made mistakes, but they're the only things that you can truly call your own."

"Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them."

"We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones."

"Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side."

"So many times it seemed like there were chances to stop things before they started. Or even stop them in midstream. But it was even worse when you knew in that very moment that there was still time to save yourself, and yet you couldn't even budge."

"It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved."

"It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so."

"Over the last 15 months, we've traveled to every corner of the United States. I've now been in 57 states? I think one left to go."

Explore more quotes by R. Lee Ermey

"When you try to find funding for a VVA function, it doesn't seem like it's any trouble at all. People come out of the woodwork with their money to help out because we went over and fought a war."

"I got space from Travis Air Force Base, went back to the Philippine Islands and made it a point to meet the only American casting director in the Philippines. I was off and running."

"Back in the old Corp, we weren't training those privates to infiltrate into the peacetime Marine Corp. We were training those privates to go to Vietnam."

"There was a huge, tremendous amount of disabled veterans and the Veteran's Administration just wasn't geared up for it. I know for a fact that it's getting better and better."

"I honestly do feel that I am a role model for young people."

"I disagree with a lot of those changes, however at the end of the day - I go down to recruit graduation at least once or twice a year."

"Even though I disagree with many of the changes, when I see the privates graduate at the end of the day, when they walk off that drill field at the end of the ceremony, they are still fine privates; outstanding, well motivated privates."

"It's been a pretty fun ride, to tell you the truth."

"That's all I cared about too, was getting it right."

"The biggest problem was the politicians knew nothing about fighting a war."