Mistakes Quotes
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.Denis Watley
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
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
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
She had an unequalled gift... of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.Henry James
No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.W. E. Gladstone
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his client to plant vines.Frank Lloyd Wright
A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.James Joyce
Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.Nikki Giovanni
To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.Peter McWilliams, Life 101
Experience... is simply the name we give our mistakes.Oscar Wilde
The mistakes are all there waiting to be made.Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitcyh Tartakowe
I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.Igor Stravinsky
Men heap together the mistakes of their lives and create a monster they call destiny.John Oliver Hobbes
It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something.Ornette Coleman
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
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
People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress.Dr. Dale E. Turne
People will listen a great deal more patiently while you explain your mistakes than when you explain your successes.Wilbur N. Nesbit
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
No man chooses evil because it is evil he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.Mary Wollstonecraft
Mistakes are a great educator when one is honest enough to admit them and willing to learn from them.Author Unknown
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.Scott Adams
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.E. J. Phelps
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
Experience is what causes a person to make new mistakes instead of old ones.Anonymous
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.Mahatma Gandhi
Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love the greater the jealousy.Robert Heinlein, Stranger in a Srange Land
The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.Theodore Roosevelt
We made too many wrong mistakes.Yogi Berra
Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.Dan McKinnon
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
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
An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.Niels Boh
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
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
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
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.Denis Watley
