Mistakes Quotes
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.Mahatma Gandhi
Experience... is simply the name we give our mistakes.Oscar Wilde
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
Do not fear mistakes, there are none.Miles Davis
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
Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love the greater the jealousy.Robert Heinlein, Stranger in a Srange Land
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
We made too many wrong mistakes.Yogi Berra
The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes that he who distrusts them.Conte Di Camillo Benso Cavou
Men heap together the mistakes of their lives and create a monster they call destiny.John Oliver Hobbes
People will listen a great deal more patiently while you explain your mistakes than when you explain your successes.Wilbur N. Nesbit
A life spent making mistakes is not only most honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.Unknown
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.James Joyce
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 doctor can bury his mistakes but a supplier based engineer can only advise the product designer to specify a heavier texture.Mick Lloyd Kerman
The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.Theodore Roosevelt
Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.Dr. Dale E. Turne
The essence of success is that it is never necessary to think of a new idea oneself. It is far better to wait until somebody else does it, and then to copy him in every detail, except his mistakes.Aubrey Menen
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.Niels Henrik David Boh
A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.James Joyce
Mistakes are a great educator when one is honest enough to admit them and willing to learn from them.Author Unknown
No man chooses evil because it is evil he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.Mary Wollstonecraft
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 Elde
We might make mistakes but we will make other things too.Michael Joseph Savage
Show us a man who never makes a mistake and we will show you a man who never makes anything. The capacity for occasional blundering is inseparable from the capacity to bring things to pass. The only men who are past the danger of making mistakes are the men who sleep at Greenwood.H. L. Wayland
No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.W. E. Gladstone
Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.Sophia Loren
He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.Tryon Edwards
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, from Plutarch, Lives
We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.Ted W. Engstrom
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
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
Experience is what causes a person to make new mistakes instead of old ones.Anonymous
While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.Henry C. Link
Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?Peter McWilliams, Life 101
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
If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.Mary Pickford
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
