MISTAKES QUOTES IV

quotations about mistakes

A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake, as by never repeating it.

CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

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However temperate we may be, we shall be sure to make mistakes enough in the world, and bring upon ourselves enough of trouble.

GEORGE MOGRIDGE

Old Humphrey's Address


If you want to condemn yourself for the mistakes you've made, let's be fair, that means you've got to congratulate yourself for all the good things you've done. It's okay to say, "God, I wish I'd done this; yeah, but I did do that." Then it kind of balances out.

TIM ALLEN

Reader's Digest, October 2001

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Mistakes are the growing pains of wisdom, the assessments we pay on our stock of experience, the raw material of error to be transformed into higher living. Without them there would be no individual growth, no progress, no conquest.

WILLIAM GEORGE JORDAN

The Crown of Individuality


Other kings let their ministers make their mistakes for them, but Louis insisted on making the important mistakes personally.

WILL CUPPY

The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody

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There are two kinds of mistakes. There are fatal mistakes that destroy a theory; but there are also contingent ones, which are useful in testing the stability of a theory.

GIAN-CARLO ROTA

Indiscrete Thoughts


To err is human, but it feels divine.

MAE WEST

The Wit and Wisdom of Mae West

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To go wrong in one's own way is better then to go right in someone else's.

FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY

Crime and Punishment

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Everyone thinks I'm a smart arse who can solve any bloody problem. I'm not. I'm just a very old businessman and a very experienced businessman who made every mistake in the book and can recognise one when I see one.

JOHN HARVEY-JONES

The Telegraph, January 10, 2008


I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards.

RUDYARD KIPLING

Under the Deodars

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The term of man's life is half wasted, before he has done with his mistakes, and begins to profit by his lessons.

JANE TAYLOR

The Contributions of Q. Q.

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When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.

PAULO COELHO

Brida


You are not a mistake. You are not a problem to be solved. But you won't discover this until you are willing to stop banging your head against the wall of shaming and caging and fearing yourself.

GENEEN ROTH

Women, Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything

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Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.

AL FRANKEN

Oh, the Things I Know


Behold the truth
Whenever heart may ache
There is a glory
In a great mistake.

NATHALIA CRANE

"Imperfection", Swear By the Night and Other Poems


Even honest men mistake oftener in their own favor than in other peoples.

FULKE GREVILLE

Maxims, Characters and Reflections

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Lack of recent information is responsible for more mistakes of judgment than erroneous reasoning.

MATTHEW ARNOLD

attributed, "The Living Law", Harper's Weekly, February 26, 1916

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Mistakes are a form of feedback. Every error tells us what we need to correct. As we correct each mistake, we get nearer to the behavioral sequence that works best.

JOHN BRADSHAW

Healing the Shame that Binds You


Mistakes are road signs pointing you back to the proper path.

DARIN PENZERA

Heroic Egoism


What an unchallenging life it would be if we always got things right on the first go.

RANSOM RIGGS

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

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