Quotes by Authors - Page 186

If you would not have affliction visit you twice listen at once to what it teaches.
James Burgh
He that's cheated twice by the same man is an accomplice with the cheater.
Thomas Fuller
Do not be afraid of mistakes providing you do not make the same one twice.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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
There's folks 'ud stand on their heads and then say the fault was i' their boots.
George Eliot
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
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
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
It is only error in judgement to make a mistake but it shows infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.
Christian Bovee
In a great mistake.
Nathalia Crane
If all else fails immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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
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
In all science error precedes the truth and it is better it should go first than last.
Hugh Walpole
A man finds he has been wrong at every stage of his career only to deduce the astonishing conclusion that he is at last entirely right.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
Anonymous
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
A good marksman may miss.
Thomas Fuller
Life is not life unless you make mistakes.
Joan Collins
The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Show me a person who has never made a mistake and Ell show you somebody who has never achieved much.
Joan Collins
We must somehow get comfortable with the reality of periodic failure. ... Like a trip to the dentist the thought of occasional reverses may not make us tingle with joyful anticipation but then again it's not the end of the world.
Sam Collins
Be aware that young people have to be able to make their own mistakes and that times change.
Gina Shapira
Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.
Phyllis Therous
Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.
Sophia Loren
Who thinks it just to be judged by a single error?
Beryl Markham
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
How are the mighty fallen!
Anonymous
He had a face like a benediction.
Miguel de Cervantes
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
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
Good judgement comes from experience and experience - well that comes from poor judgement.
Anonymous
Experience is a good teacher but she sends in terrific bills.
Minna Antrim
Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
Samuel Butler
Today is yesterday's pupil.
Thomas Fuller
Experience which destroys innocence also leads one back to it.
James Baldwin
Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.
Oscar Wilde
Deep experience is never peaceful.
Henry James
Many of the insights of the saint stem from his experience as a sinner.
Eric Hoffer
Experience is in the fingers and the head. The heart is inexperienced.
Henry David Thoreau
I have known him (Micawber) come home to supper with a flood of tears and a declaration that nothing was now left but a jail and go to bed making a calculation of the expense of putting bow-windows to the house "in case anything turned up " which was his favorite expression.
Charles Dickens
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 circumstantial evidence is very strong as when you find a trout in the milk.
Henry David Thoreau
A life of reaction is a life of slavery intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action not reaction.
Rita Mae Brown
Everyday ... life confronts us with new problems to be solved which force us to adjust our old programs accordingly.
Dr. Ann Faraday
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan
Humor is an attitude. It's a way of looking at life and of telling others how you feel about what's happening around you.
Gene Perret
Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
Colette
Humor is just another defense against the universe.
Mel Brooks
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it you might as well laugh about it now.
Marie Osmond
Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.
Max Eastman
One loses many laughs by not laughing at oneself.
Sara Jeannette Duncan