Forgiving ourselves and learning from our inevitable mistakes transforms failure from a stumbling block into a stepping stone.

It is important that we forgive ourselves for making mistakes. We need to learn from our errors and move on.

You have to own up first, you have to own your own failures.

I have to learn to take failure in my stride, failure in work, and failure in relationships.

I learned to recognize failure.

With every mistake, we must surely be learning.

We need to accept that we won’t always make the right decisions, that we’ll screw up royally sometimes–understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success.

I know that we made mistakes.

If we can acknowledge the failures of the past alongside its squandered potential, we can also remember and apply our insights and learnings to our present. It is a way we can envision becoming a better people, capable as a nation of emerging from the shadows of our own creation to fulfill the promise of liberty and justice for all.

Face to the reality.

To make tomorrow better we must realize tough realities today, to understand the necessity for renunciation.

It takes guts and humility to admit mistakes. Admitting we're wrong is courage, not weakness.

First, what does truth require? It requires us to face the facts as they are, not to involve ourselves in self-deception; to refuse to think merely in slogans. If we are to work for the future of the city, let us deal with the realities as they actually are, not as they might have been, and not as we wish they were.

If we do not learn from our stumbles, we can't growth.