Mistakes Quotes

I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.

Source Unknown

I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.

Igor Stravinsky

While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, another is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.

Henry C. Link

I do not fear failure. I only fear the slowing up of the engine inside of me which is pounding, saying, Keep going, someone must be on top, why not you?

General George Patton

The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth.

Walter Lippmann

Mistakes are a fact of life it is the response to error that counts.

Nikki Giovanni

I have made decisions that turned out to be wrong, and went back and did it another way, and still took less time than many who procrastinated over the original decision. Your brain is capable of handling 140, 000 million bits of information in one second, and if you take hours or days or weeks to reach a vital decision, you are short-circuiting your most valuable property.

Jerry Gillies

People who make money often make mistakes, and even have major setbacks, but they believe they will eventually prosper, and they see every setback as a lesson to be applied in their move towards success.

Jerry Gillies

Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.

George Soros

No mans error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.

Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, part 2

You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.

Samuel Levenson

Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes. Moralists had, as a rule, regarded it as a mode of warning, had claimed for it a certain ethical efficacy in the formation of character, had praised it as something that taught us what to follow and showed us what to avoid. But there was no motive power in experience. It was as little of an active cause as conscience itself. All that it really demonstrated was that our future would be the same as our past, and that the sin we had done once, and with loathing, we would do many times, and with joy.

Oscar Wilde

So that's my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made before. Don't freeze, don't stop, don't worry that it isn't good enough, or it isn't perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life.

Neil Gaiman

The drop hollows the stone not by force but by often falling.Latin: Gulta cavat lapidem non vi sed saepe cadendo

Ovid

Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.

Mark Twain

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

This is one of the disadvantages of wine, it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

Samuel Johnson

The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake...

Nelson Boswell

Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.

Pearl Buck

This is a hard and precarious world, where every mistake and infirmity must be paid in full.

Clarence Day