Mistakes Quotes
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.George Bernard Shaw
The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - So they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.Frank Lloyd Wright, New York Times, October 4, 1953
We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell on them.Lillian Hellman
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.Niels Henrik David Boh
The sooner you make your first five thousand mistakes the sooner you will be able to correct them.Kimon Nicolaides
Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul - Mate is the one you are actually married to.J. R. R. Tolkien, Letter to Michael Tolkien, March 1941
A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.James Joyce
Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?Peter McWilliams, Life 101
Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.Sophia Loren
People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress.Dr. Dale E. Turne
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
No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar.Donald Foste
People will listen a great deal more patiently while you explain your mistakes than when you explain your successes.Wilbur N. Nesbit
A doctor can bury his mistakes but a supplier based engineer can only advise the product designer to specify a heavier texture.Mick Lloyd Kerman
Mistakes are a great educator when one is honest enough to admit them and willing to learn from them.Author Unknown
The mistakes are all there waiting to be made.Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitcyh Tartakowe
Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - - The kind of atmosphere that is found in a nuturing family.Virginia Sati
A life spent making mistakes is not only most honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.Unknown
Men heap together the mistakes of their lives and create a monster they call destiny.John Oliver Hobbes
By and large, I seem to have made more mistakes than any others of whom I know, but have learned thereby to make ever swifter acknowledgment of the errors and thereafter immediately set about to deal more effectively with the truths disclosed by the acknowledgment of erroneous assumptions.Richard Buckminster Fulle
If we had more time for discussion, we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.Leon Trotsky
An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject and how to avoid them.Werner Karl Heisenberg
Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes in the sense that almost certainly in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul - Mate is the one you are actually married to.J. R. R. Tolkien
To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.Peter McWilliams, Life 101
In all the work we do, our most valuable asset can be the attitude of self - Examination. It is forgivable to make mistakes, but to stand fast behind a wall of self - Righteousness and make the same mistake twice is not forgivable.Dr. Dale E. Turne
The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.Theodore Roosevelt
Love is not a crime, denying it is. Having dreams is not a crime, not chasing them is. Making mistakes is not a crime, not learning from them is. Life is not a crime, not living it is.Alexander Senturia
Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.James A. Froude
You will make all kinds of mistakes but as long as you are generous and true and fierce you cannot hurt the world, or even seriously distress her.Winston Churchill
A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.John C. Maxwell
There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from.Elizabeth Kubler - Ross
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.Denis Watley
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.James Joyce
Experience... is simply the name we give our mistakes.Oscar Wilde
Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on.Peter McWilliams
To make mistakes is human to stumble is commonplace to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity.William Arthur Ward
A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.James Joyce
To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.Plutarch
