Mistakes Quotes
Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.Nikki Giovanni
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
An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.Niels Boh
I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.John Peel
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
We might make mistakes but we will make other things too.Michael Joseph Savage
Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.Mary Lou Cook
Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.Dan McKinnon
A life spent making mistakes is not only most honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.Unknown
Mistakes live in the neighbourhood of truth and therefore delude us.Henry C. Blinn
Experience... is simply the name we give our mistakes.Oscar Wilde
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
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
Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?Peter McWilliams, Life 101
A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.Mitch Ratliffe
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.Niels Henrik David Boh
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
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
Experience is what allows us to repeat our mistakes, only with more finesse!Derwood Finche
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
She had an unequalled gift... of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.Henry James
A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.James Joyce
The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes that he who distrusts them.Conte Di Camillo Benso Cavou
While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.Henry C. Link
Experience is what causes a person to make new mistakes instead of old ones.Anonymous
If we had more time for discussion, we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.Leon Trotsky
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
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.George Bernard Shaw
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.
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
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
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
A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.James Joyce
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
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
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
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
There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from.Elizabeth Kubler - Ross