"Fall seven times, stand up eight."
--Japanese Proverb

The benefit of each New Year is that it provides us with a clean slate to begin anew. However, rather than forget our mistakes of the past year, let's learn a thing or two from the experience and resolve to make only new mistakes in 2005.

We share with you the following words of wisdom about making mistakes and wish you good health and prosperity for the New Year...

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"You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself."

-- Sam Levenson

"If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner."

-- Tallulah Bankhead

"Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, more intelligently."

-- Henry Ford

"This thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down."

-- Mary Pickford

"The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy."

-- Malcolm Forbes

"Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment."

-- Rita Mae Brown

"I can accept failure. Everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying."

-- Michael Jordan

"People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year."

-- Peter Drucker

"Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it."

-- Cullen Hightower

"It's never too late, in fiction or in life, to revise."

-- Nancy Thayer