Quotes by American Authors - Page 181

Mistakes fail in their mission of helping the person who blames them on the other fellow.
Henry S. Haskins
Admitting error clears the score and proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman
It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes. It takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.
Jessamyn West
I believe we are solely responsible for our choices and we have to accept the consequences of every deed word and thought throughout our lifetime.
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures.
Bernard M. Baruch
I've arrived at this outermost edge of my life by my own actions. Where I am is thoroughly unacceptable. Therefore I must stop doing what I have been doing.
Alice Koller
Ah how steadily do they who are guilty shrink from reproof!
Amelia Jenks Bloomer
We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until... we have stopped saying "It got lost " and say "I lost it."
Sydney J. Harris
Peole do think that if they avoid the truth it might change to something better before they have to hear it.
Marsha Norman
It is only error in judgement to make a mistake but it shows infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.
Christian Bovee
If you have made mistakes even serious mistakes there is always another chance for you.
Mary Pickford
Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
In a great mistake.
Nathalia Crane
If all else fails immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.
John Kenneth Galbraith
There is something distinguished about even his failures they sink not trivially but with a certain air of majesty like a great ship its flags flying full of holes.
George Jean Nathan
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood who strives valiantly who errs and comes short again and again who knows the great enthusiasms the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy cause who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst if he fails at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt
Our mistakes won't irreparably damage our lives unless we let them.
James E. Sweeney
Virtually nothing comes out right the first time. Failures repeated failures are finger posts on the road to achievement. The only time you don't want to fail is the last time you try something.... One fails forward toward success.
Charles F. Kettering
In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.
Bill Vaughan
One loss is good for the soul. Too many losses are not good for the coach.
Knute Rockne
Accept that all of us can be hurt that all of us can - and surely will at times - fail. Other vulnerabilities like being embarrassed or risking love can be terrifying too. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst take the risk.
Dr. Joyce Brothers
The fellow who never makes a mistake takes his orders from one who does.
Herbert B. Prochnow
All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection.
William Faulkner
He who has never failed somewhere that man cannot be great.
Herman Melville
We all choke and the man who says he doesn't choke is lying like hell. We all leak oil.
Lee Trevino
The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.
Phyllis Therous
Every man's got to figure to get beat sometime.
Joe Louis
Flops are a part of life's menu and Eve never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
Rosalind Russell
Here's to the men who lose! What though their work be e'er so nobly plann'd And watched with zealous care No glorious halo crowns their efforts grand - Contempt is Failure's share!
G. L. Scarborough
But to him who tries and fails and dies I give great honor and glory and tears.
Joaquin Miller
Every fact that is learned becomes a key to other facts.
E. I. Youmans
A cheerful face is nearly as good for an invalid as healthy weather.
Benjamin Franklin
The shoemaker makes a good shoe because he makes nothing else.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less.
Nicholas Murray
One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
James Russell Lowell
I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided and that is the lamp of experience.
Patrick Henry
Not to transmit an experience is to betray it.
Elie Wiesel
Any man worth his salt has by the time he is forty-five accumulated a crown of thorns and the problem is to learn to wear it over one ear.
Christopher Morley
Strange how few After all's said and done the things that are Of moment.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Experience is the worst teacher it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
Vernon Law
Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Franklin P. Jones
Age is only a number a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time.
Bernard Baruch
When choosing between two evils I always like to take the one I've never tried before.
Mae West
Experience is a good teacher but she sends in terrific bills.
Minna Antrim
The life of the law has not been logic it has been experience.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Experience which destroys innocence also leads one back to it.
James Baldwin
Deep experience is never peaceful.
Henry James
Many of the insights of the saint stem from his experience as a sinner.
Eric Hoffer
I embrace emerging experience. I participate in discovery. I am a butterfly. I am not a butterfly collector. I want the experience of the butterfly.
William Stafford
God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas but for scars!
Elbert Hubbard
Experience is in the fingers and the head. The heart is inexperienced.
Henry David Thoreau
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experience.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If a man has good corn or wood or boards or pigs to sell or can make better chairs or knives crucibles or church organs than anybody else you will find a broad hardbeaten road to his house though it be in the woods.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
None preaches better than the ant and she says nothing.
Benjamin Franklin
When you were a tadpole and I was a fish in the Palaozoic time And side by side in the sluggish tide we sprawled in the ooze and slime.
Langdon Smith
Some call it Evolution And others call it God.
W. H. Carruth
There is no more reason to believe that man descended from some inferior animal than there is to believe that a stately mansion has descended from a small cottage.
W. J. Bryan
Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime And departing leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Some circumstantial evidence is very strong as when you find a trout in the milk.
Henry David Thoreau