MISTAKES QUOTES

quotations about mistakes

Mistakes quote

Everybody is guilty of mistakes and of serious mistakes, and the contemplation of these mistakes must darken, be it ever so little, the last years of existence.

ARNOLD BENNETT

Self and Self-Management

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Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?

L. M. MONTGOMERY

Anne of Green Gables

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Hindsight, or our ability to see our past clearly, is a learning function that, when damaged ... renders us unable to look at the past to guide ourselves through the present and into the future. Without this ability, we cannot learn from our mistakes. We cannot clean up the wreckage of our actions. We are locked into a cycle of repeating the same thing over and over again, expecting different results. This is commonly known as the definition of insanity.

BARBARA S. COLE

The Gifts of Sobriety

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Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

OSCAR WILDE

Lady Windermere's Fan

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If you don't have a margin for error, error kills you.

S. M. STIRLING

The Sunrise Lands

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The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.

JOHN C. MAXWELL

The Power of Thinking Big

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Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

ALBERT EINSTEIN

attributed, How to Think Like Einstein

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If one wants to be active, one must not be afraid of going wrong, one must not be afraid of making mistakes now and then. Many people think that they will become good just by doing no harm -- but that's a lie.... That way lies stagnation, mediocrity.

VINCENT VAN GOGH

letter to Theo van Gogh, October 1884

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Men don't make different mistakes at different periods of their lives. They make the same mistake over and over again and they pay a bigger and bigger price for it.

VICKI BAUM

Written on Water

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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

DOUG LARSON

attributed, Quotable Quotes

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You want to cry aloud for your mistakes. But to tell the truth the world doesn't need any more of that sound.

MARY OLIVER

"The Poet With His Face in His Hands", New and Selected Poems, vol. 2

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It is a comfort not to be mistaken at all points.

J. R. R. TOLKIEN

The Two Towers

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My mistakes are my life.

SAMUEL BECKETT

How It Is

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It is much easier at all times to prevent an evil than to rectify mistakes.

GEORGE WASHINGTON

letter to James McHenry, August 10, 1798

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A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them and strong enough to correct them.

JOHN C. MAXWELL

The Power of Leadership

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There is no original truth, only original error.

GASTON BACHELARD

Fragments of a Poetics of Fire

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A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

JAMES JOYCE

Ulysses

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Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

BRUCE LEE

Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living

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There is no mistake; there has been no mistake; and there shall be no mistake.

ARTHUR WELLESLEY

Wellingtoniana


I prefer being wrong in my own way to being right in someone else's.

YEVGENY ZAMYATIN

Contemporary Russian Literature

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