Mistakes Quotes
83 quotations about Mistakes
Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.
We're all human and we all goof. Do things that may be wrong, but do something!
Mistakes are a fact of life it is the response to error that counts.
A clever man commits no minor blunders.
No mans error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.
The greatest mistake a man can make is to be afraid of making one.
Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.
To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you're overdoing it.
I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.
That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one.
Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
A man's errors are his portals of discovery.
The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.
To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.
We can afford almost any mistake once.
Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues.
Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.
A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.
The value of action is that we make mistakes; mistakes show us what we need to learn.
Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.
Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.
Don't be afraid to make a mistake. But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice.
The sooner you make your first five thousand mistakes the sooner you will be able to correct them.
What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.
Authors on Mistakes
Henri Frederic Amiel
Gaston Bachelard
Tallulah Bankhead
Orlando A. Battista
Arnold Bennett
James Gordon Bennett
Yogi Berra
John Bradshaw
Leo Burnett
Dale Carnegie
William Ellery Channing
Winston Churchill
Marcus T. Cicero
Confucius
Oliver Cromwell
Charles R. Darwin
Miles Davis
Sir Humphrey Davy
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Peter F. Drucker