Mistakes Quotes
Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on.Peter McWilliams
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
In all the work we do, our most valuable asset can be the attitude of self - Examination. It is forgivable to make mistakes, but to stand fast behind a wall of self - Righteousness and make the same mistake twice is not forgivable.Dr. Dale E. Turne
He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.Tryon Edwards
Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.James A. Froude
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
Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.Nikki Giovanni
She had an unequalled gift... of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.Henry James
People will listen a great deal more patiently while you explain your mistakes than when you explain your successes.Wilbur N. Nesbit
Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.Dr. Dale E. Turne
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
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.E. J. Phelps
The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - So they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.Frank Lloyd Wright, New York Times, October 4, 1953
Men heap together the mistakes of their lives and create a monster they call destiny.John Oliver Hobbes
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
Experience is what causes a person to make new mistakes instead of old ones.Anonymous
A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.James Joyce
Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.Mary Lou Cook
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his client to plant vines.Frank Lloyd Wright
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.George Bernard Shaw
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
Experience... is simply the name we give our mistakes.Oscar Wilde
Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.Confucius
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
The mistakes are all there waiting to be made.Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitcyh Tartakowe
I made some mistakes in drama. I thought the drama was when the actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries.Frank Capra
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
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.Mahatma Gandhi
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
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.Scott Adams
Do not fear mistakes, there are none.Miles Davis
Mistakes are a great educator when one is honest enough to admit them and willing to learn from them.Author Unknown
Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.Dan McKinnon
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
An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject and how to avoid them.Werner Karl Heisenberg
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
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
