Mistakes Quotes

No one is worse, for knowing the worst of themselves.

Proverb

There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.

Orison Swett Marden

No man is beaten until his hope is annihilated, his confidence gone, As long as a man faces life hopefully, confidently, triumphantly, he is not a failure; he is not beaten until he turns his back on life.

Orison Swett Marden

Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Miles Davis

It's discouraging to make a mistake, but it's humiliating when you find out you're so unimportant that nobody noticed it.

Chuck Daly

Maybe you expected marriage to be perfect - I guess that's where you and I are different. See, I thought it would be all about making mistakes, but doing it with someone who's there to remind you what you learned along the way.

Jodi Picoult

Mistakes, scandals, and failures no longer signal catastrophe. The crucial thing is that they be made credible, and that the public be made aware of the efforts being expended in that direction. The ''marketing'' immunity of governments is similar to that of the major brands of washing powder.

Jean Baudrillard

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

John Powell

The two worst strategic mistakes to make are acting prematurely and letting an opportunity slip; to avoid this, the warrior treats each situation as if it were unique and never resorts to formulae, recipes or other people's opinions.

Paulo Coelho

While fools shun one set of faults they run into the opposite one.

Horace

Rare is the person who can weigh the faults of others without putting his thumb on the scales.

Byron J. Langenfield

Fools can find fault, but they can't act anymore wisely.

Langbien

It is almost always a mistake to mention Abraham Lincoln. He always steals the show.

Kurt Vonnegut

The worst mistake which was ever made in this world was the separation of political science from ethics.

Leo Tolstoy

We'll do all right if we can capitalize on our mistakes.

Mickey Rivers

Accidents, try to change them -- it's impossible. The accidental reveals man.

Pablo Picasso

Oh, why will parents always appear at the wrong time? Some extraordinary mistake in nature, I suppose.

Oscar Wilde

Things refuse to be mismanaged for long.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Truth is one, but error proliferates. Man tracks it down and cuts it up into little pieces hoping to turn it into grains of truth. But the ultimate atom will always essentially be an error, a miscalculation.

Rene Daumal

The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.

Johann von Goethe