Mistakes Quotes
No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.W. E. Gladstone
Mistakes are a great educator when one is honest enough to admit them and willing to learn from them.Author Unknown
It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.Sydney Smith
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
Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.Nikki Giovanni
I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky
Experience is what allows us to repeat our mistakes, only with more finesse.Derwood Finche
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his client to plant vines.Frank Lloyd Wright
Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.James A. Froude
By and large, I seem to have made more mistakes than any others of whom I know, but have learned thereby to make ever swifter acknowledgment of the errors and thereafter immediately set about to deal more effectively with the truths disclosed by the acknowledgment of erroneous assumptions.Richard Buckminster Fulle
A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing.George Bernard Shaw
There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.Buddha
A doctor can bury his mistakes but a supplier based engineer can only advise the product designer to specify a heavier texture.Mick Lloyd Kerman
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.
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
The sooner you make your first five thousand mistakes the sooner you will be able to correct them.Kimon Nicolaides
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
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
We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.Ted W. Engstrom
No man chooses evil because it is evil he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.Mary Wollstonecraft
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, from Plutarch, Lives
When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance.... Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer.Denis Watley
Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - - The kind of atmosphere that is found in a nuturing family.Virginia Sati
Show us a man who never makes a mistake and we will show you a man who never makes anything. The capacity for occasional blundering is inseparable from the capacity to bring things to pass. The only men who are past the danger of making mistakes are the men who sleep at Greenwood.H. L. Wayland
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.Mahatma Gandhi
A life spent making mistakes is not only most honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.Unknown
An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.Niels Boh
Experience... is simply the name we give our mistakes.Oscar Wilde
The mistakes are all there waiting to be made.Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitcyh Tartakowe
Experience is what allows us to repeat our mistakes, only with more finesse!Derwood Finche
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.George Bernard Shaw
Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.Oscar Wilde
You will make all kinds of mistakes but as long as you are generous and true and fierce you cannot hurt the world, or even seriously distress her.Winston Churchill
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, Letter to Michael Tolkien, March 1941
Experience is what causes a person to make new mistakes instead of old ones.Anonymous
No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar.Donald Foste
Men heap together the mistakes of their lives and create a monster they call destiny.John Oliver Hobbes
Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.Mary Lou Cook
