#Mistakes Quotes

“The results of life are uncalculated and uncalculable. The years teach much which the days never know. The persons who compose our company, converse, and come and go, and design and execute many things, and somewhat comes of it all, but an unlooked for result. The individual is always mistaken. He designed many things, and drew in other persons as coadjutors, quarrelled with some or all, blundered much, and something is done; all are a little advanced, but the individual is always mistaken. It turns out somewhat new, and very unlike what he promised himself.”

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

“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.”

“I am sure that the mistakes of that time will not be repeated; we should probably make another set of mistakes.”

“Critics hang around and wait for others to make mistakes. But the real doers of the world have not time for criticizing others. They are too busy doing, making mistakes, improving, making progress.”

“Don't let the mistakes and disappointments of the past control and direct your future.”

“War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.”

“I have had to eat my own words many times, and I have found it a very nourishing diet.”

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

“We are really doing our very best. There are no doubt many mistakes and shortcomings. A lot of things are done none too well. Some things that ought to be done have not yet been done...[But Britain's effort has] justly commanded the wonder and admiration of every friendly nation in the world.”

“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.”

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

“After every mistake, we need to understand that we can look back and learn-so that we can move forward with confidence and avoid making the same mistake again.”

“You have made some mistakes and you may not be where you want to be, but that has nothing to do with your future.”

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

“I don't want to make the wrong mistake.”

“We made too many wrong mistakes.”

“Success in life is the ability to move from one mistake to another without loosing enthusiasm.”

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

“It is more honorable to repair a wrong than to persist in it.”

“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.”

“Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong - these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.”

“It is better to do the wrong thing that to do nothing.”

“it's a good idea to review past mistakes before committing new ones.”

“It's good to learn from your mistakes. It's better to learn from other people's mistakes.”

“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.”

“The man who never makes a mistake must get tired of doing nothing.”

“Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.”

“I make plenty of mistakes and I'll make plenty more mistakes, too. That's part of the game. You've just got to make sure that the right things overcome the wrong ones.”

“Creativity is often blocked by trying to be perfect. Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.”

“All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person's point of view.”

“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.”

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

“The pain others give passes away in their later kindness, but that of our own blunders, especially when they hurt our vanity, never passes away”

“Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf.”

“When they get their ego involved, people do things they shouldn't do.”

“Never get too hung up on mistakes.”

“I bought a company in the mid-90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I've made lots of dumb decisions. That's part of the game.”

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

“There's no perfect coach in the world. Coaches are human, too. Mistakes are made. But, fundamentally, if you're sound, you eliminate as many mistakes as possible.”

“We all make mistakes. If you can't make mistakes, you can't make decisions. I've made a lot bigger mistakes myself.”

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

“An investor needs to do very few things right as long as he or she avoids big mistakes.”

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

“Habit is the nursery of errors.”

“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.”

“You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.”

“I mean, if Pearl Harbor came along, you could have said the planning was wrong by the military ahead of time or maybe the battleships shouldn't have all been in the harbor and all that kind of thing.”

“I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake.”

“There's room for role models who make mistakes.”