Mistakes Quotes - Page 5

Admitting error clears the score and proves you wiser than before.

Arthur Guiterman

Mistakes fail in their mission of helping the person who blames them on the other fellow.

Henry S. Haskins

I have known men who could see through the motivations of others with the skill of a clairvoyant only to prove blind to their own mistakes. I have been one of those men.

Bernard M. Baruch

I have made mistakes but I have never made the mistake of claiming that I never made one.

James Gordon Bennett

The man who can own up to his error is greater than he who merely knows how to avoid making it.

Cardinal de Retz

A man may fall many times but he won't be a failure until he says that someone pushed him.

Elmer G. Letterman

Do not be afraid of mistakes providing you do not make the same one twice.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Fool me once shame on you fool me twice shame on me.

Chinese Proverb

There is no reason to repeat bad history.

Eleanor Holmes Norton

I try to extract something positive from [every] situation even if it's just learning not to make the same mistake twice.

Claudia Schiffer

Our mistakes won't irreparably damage our lives unless we let them.

James E. Sweeney

A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Johann von Goethe

Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.

No man ever progressed to greatness and goodness but through great mistakes.

Frederick W. Robertson

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

The errors of great men are venerable because they are more fruitful than the truths of little men.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

If all else fails immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.

John Kenneth Galbraith

In a great mistake.

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

J. Robert Oppenheimer

If you have made mistakes even serious mistakes there is always another chance for you.

Life like war is a series of mistakes and he is best who wins the most splendid victories by the retrieval of mistakes.

Frederick W. Robertson

A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

Confucius

The great virtue of man lies in his ability to correct his mistakes and to continually make a new man of himself.

It is only error in judgement to make a mistake but it shows infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.

Christian Bovee

It is human to err but it is devilish to remain willfully in error.

Saint Augustine

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes but quickly to see how to make them good.

Peole do think that if they avoid the truth it might change to something better before they have to hear it.

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

Ah how steadily do they who are guilty shrink from reproof!

Amelia Jenks Bloomer

We all choke and the man who says he doesn't choke is lying like hell. We all leak oil.

He who has never failed somewhere that man cannot be great.

Herman Melville

He is always right who suspects that he makes mistakes.

Spanish Proverb

The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.

Bishop WC. Magee

A good marksman may miss.

He that has much to do will do something wrong.

For a just man falleth seven times and riseth up again.

Bible

To make no mistake is not in the power of man but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

Plutarch

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection.

William Faulkner

The fellow who never makes a mistake takes his orders from one who does.

Herbert B. Prochnow

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 greatest general is he who makes the fewest mistakes.

Napoléon Bonaparte

War is a series of catastrophes that results in victory.

Georges Clémenceau

Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.

Anonymous

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

One loss is good for the soul. Too many losses are not good for the coach.

In all science error precedes the truth and it is better it should go first than last.

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.

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

To err is human to forgive divine.

Imagine a congress of eminent celebrities such as More Bacon Grotius Pascal Cromwell Bossuet Montesquieu Jefferson Napoleon Pitt etc. They would be an Encyclopedia of Errors.

Flops are a part of life's menu and Eve never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.

Rosalind Russell

Every man's got to figure to get beat sometime.

Joe Louis

Who thinks it just to be judged by a single error?

Man errs as long as he struggles.

Johann von Goethe

Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Phyllis Therous

Be aware that young people have to be able to make their own mistakes and that times change.

The best brewer sometimes makes bad beer.

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.

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