MISTAKES QUOTES II

quotations about mistakes

Mistakes quote

In school we learn that mistakes are bad, and we are punished for making them. Yet, if you look at the way humans are designed to learn, we learn by making mistakes. We learn to walk by falling down. If we never fell down, we would never walk.

ROBERT T. KIYOSAKI

Rich Dad, Poor Dad


Countless mistakes hang about the minds of men; and it is a difficult thing to discover what now, and also in the end, is best to happen to a man.

PINDARUS

attributed, Day's Collacon


We are never so liable to fall into an error, as when we have just escaped from one.

NORMAN MACDONALD

Maxims and Moral Reflections

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Let us be glad of the dignity of our privilege to make mistakes, glad of the wisdom that enables us to recognize them, glad of the power that permits us to turn their light as a glowing illumination along the pathway of our future.

WILLIAM GEORGE JORDAN

The Crown of Individuality


Success is the result of good judgment, good judgment is the result of experience, and experience is often the result of bad judgment! What have you learned from a past mistake that you can use to improve your life today?

ANTHONY ROBBINS

Giant Steps: Small Changes to Make a Big Difference

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A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

ALEXANDER POPE

"Thoughts on Various Subjects"

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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

attributed, Campaigning for Napoleon: The Diary of a Napoleonic Cavalry Officer

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An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject and how to avoid them.

WERNER HEISENBERG

Physics and Beyond

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By your stumbling, the world is perfected.

SRI AUROBINDO

attributed, Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing

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Hindsight is of little value in the decision-making process. It distorts our memory for events that occurred at the time of the decision so that the actual consequence seems to have been a "foregone conclusion." Thus, it may be difficult to learn from our mistakes.

DIANE F. HALPERN

Thought and Knowledge

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If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person.

BILL CLINTON

attributed, Wit and Wisdom of the American Presidents: A Book of Quotations

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A double error sometimes sets us right.

PHILIP JAMES BAILEY

Festus

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It's a good deal easier to resist the first step on the road to ruin than any of the thousand that inevitably follow.

MARK FROST

The List of Seven

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To make mistakes is human, but to profit from them is divine.

ELBERT HUBBARD

The American Bible

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It is with pleasure I receive reproof, when reproof is due, because no person can be readier to accuse me, than I am to acknowledge an error, when I am guilty of one; nor more desirous of atoning for a crime, when I am sensible of having committed it.

GEORGE WASHINGTON

letter to Governor Dinwiddie, August 27, 1757

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I was born with the wrong sign
In the wrong house
With the wrong ascendancy
I took the wrong road
That led to the wrong tendencies
I was in the wrong place at the wrong time
For the wrong reason and the wrong rhyme
On the wrong day of the wrong week
I used the wrong method with the wrong technique
Wrong

DEPECHE MODE

"Wrong"

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

PEARL S. BUCK

What America Means to Me

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If you insist on disavowing that which is ugly about what you do ... you will never learn from your mistakes.

CASSANDRA CLARE

City of Bones

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If common sense were as unerring as calculus, as some suggest, I don't understand why so many mistakes are made so often by so many people.

CARY WINKEL

attributed, Explaining One's Self to Others: Reason-Giving in a Social Context

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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

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