MISTAKES QUOTES
quotations about mistakes
Everybody is guilty of mistakes and of serious mistakes, and the contemplation of these mistakes must darken, be it ever so little, the last years of existence.
ARNOLD BENNETT
Self and Self-Management
Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
OSCAR WILDE
Lady Windermere's Fan
Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?
L. M. MONTGOMERY
Anne of Green Gables
Hindsight, or our ability to see our past clearly, is a learning function that, when damaged ... renders us unable to look at the past to guide ourselves through the present and into the future. Without this ability, we cannot learn from our mistakes. We cannot clean up the wreckage of our actions. We are locked into a cycle of repeating the same thing over and over again, expecting different results. This is commonly known as the definition of insanity.
BARBARA S. COLE
The Gifts of Sobriety
It is much easier at all times to prevent an evil than to rectify mistakes.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
letter to James McHenry, August 10, 1798
If one wants to be active, one must not be afraid of going wrong, one must not be afraid of making mistakes now and then. Many people think that they will become good just by doing no harm -- but that's a lie.... That way lies stagnation, mediocrity.
VINCENT VAN GOGH
letter to Theo van Gogh, October 1884
It is a comfort not to be mistaken at all points.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN
The Two Towers
If you don't have a margin for error, error kills you.
S. M. STIRLING
The Sunrise Lands
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
ALBERT EINSTEIN
attributed, How to Think Like Einstein
Men don't make different mistakes at different periods of their lives. They make the same mistake over and over again and they pay a bigger and bigger price for it.
VICKI BAUM
Written on Water
The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.
JOHN C. MAXWELL
The Power of Thinking Big
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
The Power of Leadership
You want to cry aloud for your mistakes. But to tell the truth the world doesn't need any more of that sound.
MARY OLIVER
"The Poet With His Face in His Hands", New and Selected Poems, vol. 2
My mistakes are my life.
SAMUEL BECKETT
How It Is
To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.
DOUG LARSON
attributed, Quotable Quotes
A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
JAMES JOYCE
Ulysses
Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.
BRUCE LEE
Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
There is no mistake; there has been no mistake; and there shall be no mistake.
ARTHUR WELLESLEY
Wellingtoniana
There is no original truth, only original error.
GASTON BACHELARD
Fragments of a Poetics of Fire
I prefer being wrong in my own way to being right in someone else's.
YEVGENY ZAMYATIN
Contemporary Russian Literature