MISTAKES QUOTES V

quotations about mistakes


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However temperate we may be, we shall be sure to make mistakes enough in the world, and bring upon ourselves enough of trouble.

GEORGE MOGRIDGE
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Old Humphrey's Address


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It is a very hard and troublesome thing to dispose of whole, half, and quarter-mistakes; to sift them and assign the portion of truth to its proper place.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe

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The term of man's life is half wasted, before he has done with his mistakes, and begins to profit by his lessons.

JANE TAYLOR

The Contributions of Q. Q.

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A step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.

KURT VONNEGUT

Player Piano

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When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.

PAULO COELHO

Brida


We all make mistakes, have struggles, and even regret things in our past. But you are not your mistakes, you are not your struggles, and you are here NOW with the power to shape your day and your future.

STEVE MARABOLI

Unapologetically You


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.

AL FRANKEN

Oh, the Things I Know


At an early age I learned that people make mistakes, and you have to decide if their mistakes are bigger than your love for them.

ANGIE THOMAS

The Hate U Give


To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.

CHARLES DARWIN

letter to A. Stephen Wilson, March 5, 1879

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There are people who make no mistakes because they never wish to do anything worth doing.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe

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To err is human, but it feels divine.

MAE WEST

The Wit and Wisdom of Mae West

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Mistakes occur through haste, never through doing a thing leisurely.

CHINESE PROVERB

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Everyone thinks I'm a smart arse who can solve any bloody problem. I'm not. I'm just a very old businessman and a very experienced businessman who made every mistake in the book and can recognise one when I see one.

JOHN HARVEY-JONES

The Telegraph, January 10, 2008


Every step that I take is another mistake to you.

LINKIN PARK

"Numb"


They say we learn from mistakes,
that's why they mistake me.

LIL WAYNE

"Blunt Blowin", Tha Carter IV


Mistakes are road signs pointing you back to the proper path.

DARIN PENZERA

Heroic Egoism


Brother, brother; we are both in the wrong.

JOHN GAY

Beggar's Opera

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Lack of recent information is responsible for more mistakes of judgment than erroneous reasoning.

MATTHEW ARNOLD

attributed, "The Living Law", Harper's Weekly, February 26, 1916

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When you make a mistake, don't make a second one -- keeping it to yourself. Own up. The time to sort out rotten eggs is at the nest. The deeper you hide them in the case the longer they stay in circulation, and the worse impression they make when they finally come to the breakfast table.

GEORGE HORACE LORIMER

Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son

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Even honest men mistake oftener in their own favor than in other peoples.

FULKE GREVILLE

Maxims, Characters and Reflections

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