Mistakes Quotes

when you really realize how you have lived your life, you indeed realize how you must live your life. It is mostly they that have least time to ponder always who always find time to wonder.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Had I known only tells us the regretful stories of yesterday better

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

I beseech you in the bowels of Christ think it possible you may be mistaken.

Oliver Cromwell

Men are men they needs must err.

Euripides

A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe

There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men. Imagine a congress of eminent celebrities such as More Bacon Grotius Pascal Cromwell Bossuet Montesquieu Jefferson Napoleon Pitt etc. The result would be an Encyclopedia of Errors.

Most men would rather be charged with malice than with making a blunder.

It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes. It takes more gut and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published every day like those of a baseball player.

Anonymous

It's over and can't be helped and that's one consolation as they always say in Turkey when they cut the wrong man's head off.

Charles Dickens

A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.

Cowardice as distinguished from panic is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.

Ernest Hemingway

There is nothing wrong with making mistakes. Just don't respond with encores.

Anonymous

A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life and find solace in fantasy.

G.K. Chesterton

All sins cast long shadows.

Every time history repeats itself the price goes up.

The first duty of an historian is to be on his guard against his own sympathies.

The weak have one weapon: the errors of those who think they are strong.

Georges Bidault

Nothing is so simple that it cannot be misunderstood.

Too much talk will include errors.

Burmese proverb

What is the use of running when you are on the wrong road?

Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.

Benjamin Disraeli

Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

Disillusion is a natural stage that follows the holding of an illusion.

Susan Shaughnessy

If any good results to a man from believing a lie it certainly comes from the honesty of his belief.

Margaret Collier Graham

And what if I did run my ship aground oh still it was splendid to sail it!

Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.

Rosalind Russell

It is not easy but you have to be willing to make mistakes. And the earlier you make those mistakes the better.

Jane Cahill Pfeiffer

If you're gonna be a failure at least be one at something you enjoy.

Sylvester Stallone

Who would not rather flounder in the fight than not have known the glory of the fray?

Better a false belief than no belief at all.

A mistake is simply another way of doing things.

Katherine Graham

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

Abraham Lincoln

Three failures denotes uncommon strength. A weakling had not enough grit to fail thrice.

You can't expect to win unless you know why you lose.

Benjamin Lipson

An error is simply a failure to adjust immediately from a preconception to an actuality.

John Cage

Losses are comparative imagination only makes them of any moment.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

I cannot give you the formula for success but I can give you the formula for failure: try to please everybody.

Herbert Bayard Swope

If your project doesn't work look for the part that you didn't think was important.

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

George Washington Carver

One who fears failure limits his activities.

The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.

We have forty million reasons for failure but not a single excuse.

Rudyard Kipling

How to succeed: Try hard enough. How to fail: Try too hard.

Most men fail not through lack of education but from lack of dogged determination from lack of dauntless will.

Orison Swett Marden

Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objects and principles.

Jawaharlal Nehru

We are less likely to fail if we measure with judgement our chances and our capabilities.

Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.

Failure is usually the line of least persistence.

Most people don't plan to fail they fail to plan.

John L. Beckley

Failure is not sweet but it need not be bitter.

Anonymous

The ultimate umpire of all things in life is - fact.

I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

Sophocles

Half the things that people do not succeed in are through fear of making the attempt.

James Northcote

Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.

A man is fortunate if he encounters living examples of vice as well as of virtue to inspire him.

Brendan Francis

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

A series of failures may culminate in the best possible result.

Failure is that early morning hour of darkness which precedes the dawning of the day of success.

Leigh Mitchell Hodges

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