A Life Spent Making Mistakes Is Not Only More Honorable, But More Useful Than A Life Spent Doing Nothing.
- George Bernard Shaw
We Must Not Say Every Mistake Is A Foolish One.
- Cicero
The Greatest Mistake You Can Make In Life Is To Be Continually Fearing You Will Make One.
- Elbert Hubbard
There Must Be A Limit To The Mistakes One Person Can Make, And When I Get To The End Of Them, Then I’ll Be Through With Them. That’s A Very Comforting Thought.
- L. M. Montgomery
While One Person Hesitates Because He Feels Inferior, The Other Is Busy Making Mistakes And Becoming Superior.
- Henry C. Link
I Daresay One Profits More By The Mistakes One Makes Off One’s Own Bat Than By Doing The Right Thing On Somebody’s Else Advice.
- W. Somerset Maugham
Be Not Ashamed Of Mistakes And Thus Make Them Crimes.
- Confucius
When You Make A Mistake, Admit It. If You Don’t, You Only Make Matters Worse.
- Ward Cleaver
Any Man Whose Errors Take Ten Years To Correct Is Quite A Man.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer
No One Who Cannot Rejoice In The Discovery Of His Own Mistakes Deserves To Be Called A Scholar.
- Donald Foster
Mistakes, Obviously, Show Us What Needs Improving. Without Mistakes, How Would We Know What We Had To Work On?
- Peter McWilliams
If All Else Fails, Immortality Can Always Be Assured By Spectacular Error.
- John Kenneth Galbraith
An Expert Is A Person Who Avoids Small Error As He Sweeps On To The Grand Fallacy.
- Benjamin Stolberg
I Have Learned Throughout My Life As A Composer Chiefly Through My Mistakes And Pursuits Of False Assumptions, Not By My Exposure To Founts Of Wisdom And Knowledge.
- Igor Stravinsky
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 Elder
There Are Sadistic Scientists Who Hurry To Hunt Down Errors Instead Of Establishing The Truth.
- Marie Curie
Every Great Mistake Has A Halfway Moment, A Split Second When It Can Be Recalled And Perhaps Remedied.
- Pearl Buck
She Had An Unequalled Gift… Of Squeezing Big Mistakes Into Small Opportunities.
- Henry James
Mistakes Are Part Of The Dues One Pays For A Full Life.
- Sophia Loren
It’s Always Helpful To Learn From Your Mistakes Because Then Your Mistakes Seem Worthwhile.
- Garry Marshall
We’re All Capable Of Mistakes, But I Do Not Care To Enlighten You On The Mistakes We May Or May Not Have Made.
- Dan Quayle
If I Had To Live My Life Again, I’d Make The Same Mistakes, Only Sooner.
- Tallulah Bankhead
Experience Is That Marvelous Thing That Enables You To Recognize A Mistake When You Make It Again.
- Franklin P. Jones
Mistakes Are The Portals Of Discovery.
- James Joyce
Freedom Is Not Worth Having If It Does Not Include The Freedom To Make Mistakes.
- Mahatma Gandhi
When You Make A Mistake, Don’t Look Back At It Long. Take The Reason Of The Thing Into Your Mind And Then Look Forward. Mistakes Are Lessons Of Wisdom. The Past Cannot Be Changed. The Future Is Yet In Your Power.
- Hugh White
Laughing At Our Mistakes Can Lengthen Our Own Life. Laughing At Someone Else’s Can Shorten It.
- Cullen Hightower
If I Had My Life To Live Over… I’d Dare To Make More Mistakes Next Time.
- Nadine Stair
Never Interrupt Your Enemy When He Is Making A Mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
Mistakes Are A Part Of Being Human. Appreciate Your Mistakes For What They Are: Precious Life Lessons That Can Only Be Learned The Hard Way. Unless It’s A Fatal Mistake, Which, At Least, Others Can Learn From.
- Al Franken
Great Services Are Not Canceled By One Act Or By One Single Error.
- Benjamin Disraeli
To Avoid Situations In Which You Might Make Mistakes May Be The Biggest Mistake Of All.
Anyone Nit-Picking Enough To Write A Letter Of Correction To An Editor Doubtless Deserves The Error That Provoked It.
- Alvin Toffler
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