Mistakes Quotes

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.

It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.

The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.

I make mistakes; I'll be the second to admit it.

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly.

Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.

Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts.

Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.

One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.

Half of life is up - the other half is dealing with it.

A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she's a tramp.

If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.

Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that what have you had?

Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.

What do you first do when you learn to swim? You make mistakes, do you not? And what happens? You make other mistakes, and when you have made all the mistakes you possibly can without drowning - and some of them many times over - what do you find? That you can swim? Well - life is just the same as learning to swim! Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live!

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes.

As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.

Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.

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.

I like someone who is a little crazy but coming from a good place. I think scars are sexy because it means you made a mistake that led to a mess.

Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.

To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men

We made too many wrong mistakes.

Success ... seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.

A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.

The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.

Woman was God's second mistake.

There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go.

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.

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.

Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.

Do not fear mistakes. There are none.

One makes mistakes; that is life. But it is never a mistake to have loved.

The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it's considered to be your style.

After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery. It's better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.

It is not strange... to mistake change for progress.

All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Whenever you make a mistake or get knocked down by life, don't look back at it too long. Mistakes are life's way of teaching you. Your capacity for occasional blunders is inseparable from your capacity to reach your goals. No one wins them all, and your failures, when they happen, are just part of your growth. Shake off your blunders. How will you know your limits without an occasional failure? Never quit. Your turn will come.

It is very east to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

I made mistakes in drama. I thought drama was when actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries.

While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.

It's okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers — they help us to learn.

We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.

I think we all wish we could erase some dark times in our lives. But all of life's experiences, bad and good make you who you are. Erasing any of life's experiences would be a great mistake.

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

I will be the first to admit I am not perfect and I make mistakes.

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake - you can't learn anything from being perfect.

Starting out to make money is the greatest mistake in life. Do what you feel you have a flair for doing, and if you are good enough at it, the money will come.

I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.

To help yourself, you must be yourself. Be the best that you can be. When you make a mistake, learn from it, pick yourself up and move on.

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

Half our mistakes in life arise from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel.

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.

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

America is a mistake, a giant mistake.

My life is full of mistakes. They're like pebbles that make a good road.

Your best teacher is your last mistake.

Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes.

Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it.

The percentage of mistakes in quick decisions is no greater than in long-drawn-out vacillations, and the effect of decisiveness itself makes things go and creates confidence.

Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.

You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.

Remember there are no mistakes, only lessons. Love yourself, trust your choices, and everything is possible

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.

She had an unequalled gift, usually pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into opportunities.

I would like to be called an inspiration to people, not a role model - because I make mistakes like everybody else. When I'm offstage, I'm just like everybody else.

Fall down seven times, stand up eight.

People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They're wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster.

Intelligent or not, we all make mistakes and perhaps the intelligent mistakes are the worst, because so much careful thought has gone into them.

It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent.

Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.

To us Americans much has been given; of us much is required. With all our faults and mistakes, it is our strength in support of the freedom our forefathers loved which has saved mankind from subjection to totalitarian power.

Take risks. Ask big questions. Don't be afraid to make mistakes; if you don't make mistakes, you're not reaching far enough.

We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not make glory, and singing in the dark does not dispel fear.

Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.