Quotations about Mistakes In Life

Quotations about Mistakes In Life - By authors quotes

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
~Elbert Hubbard, The Note Book, 1927


Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.
~Sophia Loren


It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something.
 ~Ornette Coleman

I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.
~John Peel


Never say, "oops." Always say, "Ah, interesting."
~Author unknown


If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake.
~F. Wikzek


Of all the blunders that blundering critics ever blundered upon, surely this is the greatest.
~"Aristarchus" of Oxford


While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.
 ~Henry C. Link


An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field.
~Niels Bohr


A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
 ~Alexander Pope, in Swift, Miscellanies


That's not serious, it's just human.
 ~The amazingly brilliant


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


The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
~Edward Phelps


Making mistakes simply means you are learning faster.
 ~Weston H. Agor


Doing one fool thing after another is not so terrible when you consider the human proclivity to do several fool things at once.
~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com


If a mistake is not a stepping stone, it is a mistake.
 ~Eli Siegel


Error is not always the result of a want of education, but often a lack of power to comprehend the truth.
 ~James Lendall Basford (1845–1915)


One cannot too soon forget his errors and misdemeanors; for to dwell upon them is to add to the offense.
~Henry David Thoreau


You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
 ~Colette


Unto those Three Things which the Ancients held impossible, there should be added this Fourth, to find a Book Printed without erratas.
 ~Alfonso de Cartagena


As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.
~Mel Brooks


Our blunders mostly come from letting our wishes interpret our duties.
~Author Unknown


When we make mistakes they call it evil. When God makes mistakes they call it Nature!
~Jack Nicholson in The Witches of Eastwick


Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published every day, like those of a baseball player.
 ~Author Unknown


Mistakes fail in their mission of helping the person who blames them on the other fellow.
~Henry S. Haskins


Error is a hardy plant; it flourishes in every soil.
~Martin F. Tupper


When you realize you've made a mistake, make amends immediately. It's easier to eat crow while it's still warm.
 ~Dan Heist


Making a different mistake every day is not only acceptable, it is the definition of progress.
~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com


Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.
 ~Phyllis Theroux, Night Lights


The essence of success is that it is never necessary to think of a new idea oneself. It is far better to wait until somebody else does it, and then to copy him in every detail, except his mistakes.
~Aubrey Menen


If you shut your door to all errors truth will be shut out.
 ~Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds, 1916


A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
~James Joyce, Ulysses


Just because you make mistakes doesn't mean you are one.
~Author Unknown


Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
~Francis Bacon


Admit your errors before someone else exaggerates them.
~Andrew V. Mason