Mistakes Quotes

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.

If I had my life to live over... I'd dare to make more mistakes next time.

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.

There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.

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

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually afraid you will make one.

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.

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

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

We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.

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

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

An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.

An expert is a person who avoids small error as he sweeps on to the grand fallacy.

Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it.

Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.

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.

It's always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile.

Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

Love truth, and pardon error.

Assert your right to make a few mistakes. If people can't accept your imperfections, that's their fault.

Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.

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.

When you make a mistake, admit it. If you don't, you only make matters worse.

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

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

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

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.

She had an unequalled gift... of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.

Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar.

Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.

Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?

To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.

There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.

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.

Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

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

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.