quotations about mistakes
Unhappy is he who mistakes the branch for the tree, the shadow for the substance.
RABBI SIMON
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attributed, Day's Collacon
Mistakes have the power to turn you into something better than you were before.
ANONYMOUS
Mistake, error, is the discipline through which we advance.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
Address on the Present Age
Mistakes are great. Mistakes are brilliant--get on with making things happen, make mistakes and learn from them, and try more stuff.
RICHARD HAMMOND
Learn Popular Retail Strategies
I have learned all kinds of things from my many mistakes. The one thing I never learn is to stop making them.
JOE ABERCROMBIE
Last Argument of Kings
Only while sleeping one makes no mistakes. Making mistakes is the privilege of the active--of those who can correct their mistakes and put them right.
INGVAR KAMPRAD
"The Testament of a Furniture Dealer"
Error, by force of contrast, enhances the triumph of Truth.
MARCEL PROUST
Swann's Way
It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors; for there is this paradox in men, they run after that which is new, but are prejudiced in favour of that which is old.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Lacon
Mistakes are okay. They're here to help you grow. They teach us what we should and shouldn't do.
PHARAOH MITCHELL
Unstoppable
The important thing in my view is not to pin the blame for a mistake on somebody, but rather to find out what caused the mistake.
AKIO MORITA
Made in Japan
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
JOHN POWELL
The Secret of Staying in Love
One error persisted in, frequently produces others.
SAMUEL RICHARDSON
Sir Charles Grandison
The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT
New York Times Magazine, October 4, 1953
Though you may be last to discover your follies, be always first to correct them.
NORMAN MACDONALD
Maxims and Moral Reflections
All men may err; but he that keepeth not his folly, but repenteth, doeth well; but stubbornness cometh to great trouble.
SOPHOCLES
Antigone
It sucks the way the world works. You can do a hundred things for people, but you do one bad mistake and everyone crucifies you and that's all they want to remember.
GILBERT ARENAS
Sports Illustrated, February 20, 2012
He is a thorough accountant who can cast up correctly the sum of his own errors.
ELIZA COOK
Diamond Dust