Mistakes Quotes

There are two kinds of people in this world: those who want to get things done, and those who don't want to make mistakes.

Every man is entitled to make a darn fool of himself at least once in a lifetime.

Mistakes live in the neighbourhood of truth and therefore delude us.

Don't ever make the same mistake twice unless it pays.

A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself. Indeed he progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself.

It is better to make a mistake with full force of your being than to carefully avoid mistakes with a trembling spirit.

A man who has committed a mistake and does not correct it is committing another mistake.

If we make mistakes in our first compositions and do not know them, we may not amend them.

I don't think I have any regrets, but I can tell you what I learned from mistakes or failures. I've had plenty of those. I just don't believe in regret, and my economic world is not what I would ever have imagined; I'm financially free.

The man who does things makes mistakes, but he doesn't make the biggest mistake of all-doing nothing.

Under pressure, the mouth speaks when the brain is disengaged, and, sometimes unwittingly, the gearshift is in reverse when it should be in neutral.

Good judgment comes from experience. And where does experience come from? Experience comes from bad judgment.

The better a man is the more mistakes will he make – for the more new things he will try.

Most business mistakes are irreversible setbacks, but you get another chance. There are two things in life that you don't get another chance at - marrying the wrong person and what you do with your children.

Learn from other people's mistakes. Life is too short to make them all yourself.

One mistake does not have to rule a person's entire life.

Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.

There is no effort without error or shortcoming.

Good decisions come from experience. Experience comes from making bad decisions.

We made too many wrong mistakes.

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them. This sequence is something that all achievers have in common. They do not see a mistake is as their failure; rather it is simply a learning experience. Achievers view a mistake as an opportunity to do something over again and do it right the second time. A mistake is simply the price they pay to achieve success.

It is always important in matters of high politics to know what you do not know. Those who think they know, but are mistaken, and act upon their mistakes, are the most dangerous people to have in charge.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

Do not dwell upon the sins and mistakes of yesterday so exclusively as to have no energy and mind left for living rightly today, and do not think that the sins of yesterday can prevent you from living purely today.

To some people, I am kind of a Merlin who takes lots of crazy chances, but rarely makes mistakes. I've made some bad ones, but fortunately, the successes have come along fast enough to cover up the mistakes. When you go to bat as many times as I do, and continually improve upon your mistakes, you're bound to get a good average.

I not only could not stifle controversy among your readers.. I welcome it. This Administration intends to be candid about its errors; for as a wise man once said: "An error does not become a mistake until you refuse to correct it." We intend to accept full responsibility for our errors; and we expect you to point them out when we miss them.

We are not perfect. We make mistakes. We screw up but then we forgive and move forward.

Some mistakes will be made along the way. That's good. Because some decisions are being made along the way. We'll find the mistakes. We'll fix them.

If I have erred, I err in company with Abraham Lincoln.

He who thinks little errs much.

Successful people...focus on the rewards of success: learning from their mistakes and thinking about how they can improve themselves and their situations.

Learn from every mistake because every experience, encounter, and particularly your mistakes are there to teach you and force you into being more who you are.

Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Your best teacher is your last mistake.

In Hitler's launching of the Nazi campaign upon Russia we can already see, after less than six months of fighting, that he made one of the outstanding blunders of history, and the results so far realized constitute an event of cardinal importance in the final decision of the war.

Part of making good decisions in business is recognizing the poor decisions you've made and why they were poor. I've made lots of mistakes. I'm going to make more. It's the name of the game. You don't want to expect perfection in yourself. You want to strive to do your best. It's too demanding to expect perfection in yourself.

We're all human at the end of the day, making mistakes. But learn from them is the key.

In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.

Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

Your mistake does not define who you are...you are your possibilities.

Never get too hung up on mistakes.

To acknowledge you were wrong yesterday is simply to let the world know that you are wiser today than you were then.

Any man may make a mistake; none but a fool will stick to it. Second thoughts are best as the proverb says.

If you don't make mistakes you can't make decisions.

If you simply take up the attitude of defending a mistake, there will no hope of improvement.

Every time you make a mistake, don’t bring up everything that’s wrong with yourself; tell yourself that you’re paying the price for growth and that you will learn to do better next time. Every positive thing you can say to yourself will help.

Believe in everything you do. Believe in your mistakes and grow from them.

How many people are completely successful in every department of life? Not one. The most successful people are the ones who learn from their mistakes and turn their failures into opportunities.

A jackass has that kind of strength, and puts it to a useful purpose, and is valuable to the world because he is a jackass; but anobleman is not valuable because he is a jackass. It is a mixture that is always ineffectual, and should never have been attempted in the first place. And yet, once you start a mistake, the trouble is done and you never know what is going to come of it.

When you make mistakes, when you're wrong, you should admit you're wrong and ask people to forgive you.

The greatest mistake a person can make is to be afraid of making one.

Some of us learn from other people’s mistakes and the rest of us have to be other people.

Making a mistake is falling down; failure is not getting up again.

To err and not reform, this may indeed be called error.

Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius.

To forget all about your mistakes adds to them perhaps.

Time passes unhindered. When we make mistakes, we cannot turn the clock back and try again. All we can do is use the present well.

We shall make mistakes; and if we let these mistakes frighten us from our work we shall show ourselves weaklings.

I want to be able to explain my mistakes. This means I do only the things I completely understand.

Rash actions are seldom committed in isolation. With the first rash action we always do too much. So we usually go on to commit asecond one--and then we do too little.