Mistakes Quotes

There is nothing to be learned from the second kick of a mule.

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

I want every young man who sees me to know that I'm not that different from them. I wasn't born into wealth. I wasn't born into fame. I made a lot of mistakes - but I kept at it.

It doesn't matter who you have hurt, if you've learned not to hurt again. It doesn't matter what mistakes you've made as long as you don't make them again. As long as you learn, as long as you're willing to take your life in your hands, and kiss it and go from there. Then there is growth. There there is life!

No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone who isn't trying.

One of the most important reasons for studying history is that virtually every stupid idea that is in vogue today has been tried before and proved disastrous before, time and again.

I have so often been mistaken that I no longer blush for it

Life is all about learning and one of the most memorable ways of learning something is by messing up.

The wise and the brave dares own that he was wrong.

Were there stories I wrote along the way that were terrible clinkers? God, yes. But they were all a product of their time, and I did the best I could.

If someone feels that he has never made a mistake in his life, it only means that he has never tried anything new in his life.

He that makes war without many mistakes has not made war very long.

All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.

There is no greater mistake than to suppose that platitudes, smooth words, timid policies, offer today a path to safety.

I don't know if I continue, even today, always liking myself. But what I learned to do many years ago was to forgive myself. It is very important for every human being to forgive herself or himself because if you live, you will make mistakes - it is inevitable. But once you do and you see the mistake, then you forgive yourself and say, 'Well, if I'd known better I'd have done better,' that's all.

Good judgement is the result of experience and experience the result of bad judgement.

I made a mistake by being ejected from the presidency. Next time, I will choose a Cabinet which will allow me to be life President.

A woman who cannot make her mistakes charming, is only a female.

Try things. Laugh a lot. Mess up. Apologize. Hug people. Take chances. Trust yourself. Lose things. Get over it.

I will stand on, and continue to use, the figures I have used, because I believe they are correct. Now, I'm not going to deny that you don't now and then slip up on something; no one bats a thousand.

There are no mistakes in life!

Success covers a multitude of blunders.

If you put your foot in it, be sure it's your best foot.

Base yourself in loyalty and trust. Don't be companion with those who are not your moral equal. When you make a mistake, don't hesitate to correct it.

Remorse.-- Never yield to remorse, but at once tell yourself: remorse would simply mean adding to the first act of stupidity a second.

...the person that had took a bull by the tail once had learnt sixty or seventy times as much as a person that hadn't, and said a person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was getting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn't ever going to grow dim or doubtful. Chances are, he isn't likely to carry the cat that way again, either. But if he wants to, I say let him!

I think we would have made a lot more mistakes and would have accomplished a lot less had we not been grounded in some basic truths.

Mistakes are joyful, truth infernal.

Learn from the mistakes of others - you won't live long enough to make them all yourself. He's opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer him the position.

Table your mistakes, learn from them, then move on.

Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

Every day you make some progress and every day you make a few mistakes. Through it all, your wisdom continues to grow and your experience continues to broaden.

There's room for role models who make mistakes.

I don't like audiences, I prefer my mistakes in private.

The real fault is to have faults and not amend them.

The better a man is, the more mistakes he will make, for the more new things he will try. I would never promote to a top-level job a man who was not making mistakes...otherwise he is sure to be mediocre.

The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.

He's not perfect. You aren't either, and the two of you will never be perfect. But if he can make you laugh at least once, causes you to think twice, and if he admits to being human and making mistakes, hold onto him and give him the most you can.

I'm trying to preach the idea that if we don't pay attention to history we're destined to repeat it.

The greatest mistake a person can make is doing nothing.

Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. If all economists were laid end to end they would not reach a conclusion.

The best way to correct a mistake is to make it right.

The manager who comes up with the right solution to the wrong problem is more dangerous than the manager who comes up with the wrong solution to the right problem.

Everybody's human-everybody makes mistakes. If you laugh it off and keep going and try to give it your best the next time around, people respect that.

The only way to even approach doing something perfectly is through experience, and experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

I want to be remembered as someone who was sincere. Even if I made mistakes, they were made in sincerity. If I was wrong, I was wrong in sincerity.

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

I have made the mistaken assumption - and I will attempt to be better at this - of thinking that because somebody is on Twitter and is attacking me that it is open season. And that is my mistake.

Don't lie about it. You made a mistake. Admit it and move on. Just don't do it again. Ever

A lot of people are very sacred with their ideas, and there is something to protecting yourself in that way, but there's also something to idea sharing, or being the person who makes the mistake in public so people can study that.

There's no doubt that probably at least once a week, maybe once a day, I said, "Ah, I should have done that better."

The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything. Do not be afraid to make mistakes providing you do not make the same one twice.

One way to learn to do something right is to do something wrong. Failure must teach us, or surely success will not reward us.

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Problems, weaknesses, setbacks, regrets and mistakes teach you if you're willing to learn, or they punish you if you're not.

They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward.

When you make a mistake, be excited! Analyze what happened, and learn from it.

I was going to tape some records onto a cassette, but I got the wires backwards. I erased the all of the records. When I returned them to my friend, he said, "Hey, these records are all blank."

Only the mistakes were mine.

All my life Ive known better than to depend on the experts. How could I have been so stupid, to let them go ahead?