Mistakes Quotes

One of the great mistakes that can be made by a man of my age is to get involved in athletic competition with children - - Unless, of course, they are under six. And even then, stay away from hide - And - Seek.
Bill Cosby, Time Flies
Miles davis - do not fear mistakes, there are none....
Experience is what allows us to repeat our mistakes, only with more finesse.
Derwood Finche
Richard buckminster fulle - by and large, i seem to have made more mistakes...
It is better to be high - Spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow - Minded and all to prudent.
Vincent Van Gogh
If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.
Mary Pickford
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
Mahatma Gandhi
Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes in the sense that almost certainly in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul - Mate is the one you are actually married to.
J. R. R. Tolkien
The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.
Theodore Roosevelt
There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.
Buddha
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.
Elisabeth Kuebler - Ross
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 Elde
Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.
Mary Lou Cook
She had an unequalled gift... of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
Henry James
It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.
Sydney Smith
We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell on them.
Lillian Hellman
It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something.
Ornette Coleman
The essence of success is that it is never necessary to think of a new idea oneself. It is far better to wait until somebody else does it, and then to copy him in every detail, except his mistakes.
Aubrey Menen
It is the highest form of self - Respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them. To make a mistake is only an error in judgment, but to adhere to it when it is discovered shows infirmity of character.
Dr. Dale E. Turne
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
Scott Adams
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his client to plant vines.
Frank Lloyd Wright
To make mistakes is human to stumble is commonplace to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity.
William Arthur Ward
It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes. It may even lie on the surface; but we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions? especially selfish ones.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Peace and Violence, sct. 2, in Index, no. 4 (London, 1973.
Experience is what allows us to repeat our mistakes, only with more finesse!
Derwood Finche
Experience is what causes a person to make new mistakes instead of old ones.
Anonymous
Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.
Confucius
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
George Bernard Shaw
A life spent making mistakes is not only most honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
Unknown
The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes that he who distrusts them.
Conte Di Camillo Benso Cavou
Setting loose on the battlefield weapons that are able to learn may be one of the biggest mistakes mankind has ever made. It could also be one of the last.
Richard Forsyth - Machine Learning for Expert Systems
A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
James Joyce
Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself, And know that everything in this life has purpose. There are no mistakes, No coincidences, All events are blessings given to us to learn from.
Elizabeth Kubler - Ross
Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.
Josh Billings
A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing.
George Bernard Shaw
No man chooses evil because it is evil he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
Mary Wollstonecraft
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
James Joyce
I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.
John Peel
People will listen a great deal more patiently while you explain your mistakes than when you explain your successes.
Wilbur N. Nesbit
Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.
Dan McKinnon
To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
Peter McWilliams, Life 101