quotations about mistakes
They say we learn from mistakes,
that's why they mistake me.
LIL WAYNE
"Blunt Blowin", Tha Carter IV
I can bear to hear of imputed or real errors. The man who wishes to stand well in the opinion of others must do this; because he is thereby enabled to correct his faults, or remove prejudices which are imbibed against him.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
letter to Joseph Reed, January 14, 1776
The important thing in my view is not to pin the blame for a mistake on somebody, but rather to find out what caused the mistake.
AKIO MORITA
Made in Japan
Mistakes are great. Mistakes are brilliant--get on with making things happen, make mistakes and learn from them, and try more stuff.
RICHARD HAMMOND
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Unhappy is he who mistakes the branch for the tree, the shadow for the substance.
RABBI SIMON
attributed, Day's Collacon
The wise man corrects his own errors by observing those of others.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS
The Moral Sayings of Publilius Syrus
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
Do not dwell upon the sins and mistakes of yesterday so exclusively as to have no energy and mind left for living rightly today.
JAMES ALLEN
Byways of Blessedness
The noblest spirits are most sensible of the possibility of Error: and the weakest do most hardly lay down an Error.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE
Moral and Religious Aphorisms
Mistakes are okay. They're here to help you grow. They teach us what we should and shouldn't do.
PHARAOH MITCHELL
Unstoppable
Brother, brother; we are both in the wrong.
JOHN GAY
Beggar's Opera
Mistakes are road signs pointing you back to the proper path.
DARIN PENZERA
Heroic Egoism
Makin' mistakes ain't a crime, you know. What's the use of having a reputation if you can't ruin it every now and then?
SIMONE ELKELES
Perfect Chemistry
One error persisted in, frequently produces others.
SAMUEL RICHARDSON
Sir Charles Grandison
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
JOHN POWELL
The Secret of Staying in Love
Mistakes are like accidents: they are bound to happen, but if we take precautions we have a fairly good chance of minimizing their number and their impact. If we do that, there is no reason to worry: we have enough protection.
GABOR FORRAI
Reference, Truth and Conceptual Schemes: A Defense of Internal Realism
Mistakes are opportunities to learn.
DON MCCABE
If It Is To Be, It Is Up To Me To Do It
It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors; for there is this paradox in men, they run after that which is new, but are prejudiced in favour of that which is old.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Lacon
Mistakes are the knots, the tangles, the broken threads, the dropped stitches in the web of our living. They are the misdeals in judgment, our unwise investments in morals, the profit and loss account of wisdom.
WILLIAM GEORGE JORDAN
The Crown of Individuality
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.