quotations about mistakes
Mistakes are great. Mistakes are brilliant--get on with making things happen, make mistakes and learn from them, and try more stuff.
RICHARD HAMMOND
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Those who make no mistakes are making the biggest mistakes of all -- they are attempting nothing new.
ANTHONY DE MELLO
One Minute Nonsense
Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity that one could regret their not ranking among the achievements of the human mind.
JEAN ROSTAND
"A Biologist's Thoughts", The Substance of Man
I can bear to hear of imputed or real errors. The man who wishes to stand well in the opinion of others must do this; because he is thereby enabled to correct his faults, or remove prejudices which are imbibed against him.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
letter to Joseph Reed, January 14, 1776
Mistake, error, is the discipline through which we advance.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
Address on the Present Age
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
Do not dwell upon the sins and mistakes of yesterday so exclusively as to have no energy and mind left for living rightly today.
JAMES ALLEN
Byways of Blessedness
Mistakes are opportunities to learn.
DON MCCABE
If It Is To Be, It Is Up To Me To Do It
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
He is a thorough accountant who can cast up correctly the sum of his own errors.
ELIZA COOK
Diamond Dust
Mistakes are okay. They're here to help you grow. They teach us what we should and shouldn't do.
PHARAOH MITCHELL
Unstoppable
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
JOHN POWELL
The Secret of Staying in Love
All men may err; but he that keepeth not his folly, but repenteth, doeth well; but stubbornness cometh to great trouble.
SOPHOCLES
Antigone
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
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
One error persisted in, frequently produces others.
SAMUEL RICHARDSON
Sir Charles Grandison
Though you may be last to discover your follies, be always first to correct them.
NORMAN MACDONALD
Maxims and Moral Reflections