Mistakes Quotes
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
A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing.George Bernard Shaw
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.Denis Watley
No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.W. E. Gladstone
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.E. J. Phelps
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his client to plant vines.Frank Lloyd Wright
A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.Mitch Ratliffe
The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.Theodore Roosevelt
I made some mistakes in drama. I thought the drama was when the actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries.Frank Capra
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
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
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 causes a person to make new mistakes instead of old ones.Anonymous
There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from.Elizabeth Kubler - Ross
Mistakes are a great educator when one is honest enough to admit them and willing to learn from them.Author Unknown
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
Experience is what allows us to repeat our mistakes, only with more finesse.Derwood Finche
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
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
Love is not a crime, denying it is. Having dreams is not a crime, not chasing them is. Making mistakes is not a crime, not learning from them is. Life is not a crime, not living it is.Alexander Senturia
Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.Confucius
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
Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.Nikki Giovanni
It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.Sydney Smith
She had an unequalled gift... of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.Henry James
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
No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar.Donald Foste
Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.Mary Lou Cook
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.Scott Adams
A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.John C. Maxwell
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
To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.Plutarch
A life spent making mistakes is not only most honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.Unknown
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
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.James Joyce
There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.Buddha
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, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on.Peter McWilliams
