Mistakes Quotes

A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Johann von Goethe

Show us a man who never makes a mistake and we will show you a man who never makes anything. The capacity for occasional blundering is inseparable from the capacity to bring things to pass. The only men who are past the danger of making mistakes are the men who sleep at Greenwood.

H. L. Wayland

To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.

Peter McWilliams, Life 101

It is well that there is no one without a fault; for he would not have a friend in the world.

William Hazlitt

Sometimes I think it is a great mistake to have matter that can think and feel. It complains so. By the same token, though, I suppose that boulders and mountains and moons could be accused of being a little too phlegmatic.

Kurt Vonnegut

Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.

Sophia Loren

Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.

Doris Lessing

Don't be afraid to make a mistake. But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice.

Akio Morita

Error is discipline through which we advance.

William Ellery Channing

It is important that we forgive ourselves for making mistakes. We need to learn from our errors and move on.

Steve Maraboli

Those who are successful give credit to their mistakes and give them a polished new name, experience.

Steve Maraboli

My mistakes have been my greatest mentors.

Steve Maraboli

A car crash harnesses elements of eroticism, aggression, desire, speed, drama, kinesthetic factors, the stylizing of motion, consumer goods, status -- all these in one event. I myself see the car crash as a tremendous sexual event really: a liberation of human and machine libido (if there is such a thing).

J. G. Ballard

You know, you can make a small mistake in language or etiquette in Britain, or you could when I was younger, and really be made to feel it, and it's the flick of a lash, but it would sting, and especially at school where there's not much privacy, and so on. You could, yes, undoubtedly be made to feel crushed.

Christopher Hitchens

The value of action is that we make mistakes; mistakes show us what we need to learn.

Peter McWilliams

To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Doug Larson

Hell is when we look back during that fraction of a second and know that we wasted an opportunity to dignify the miracle of life. Paradise is being able to say at that moment: I made some mistakes, but I wasn't a coward. I lived my life and did what I had to do.

Paulo Coelho

The greatest blunders, like the thickest ropes, are often compounded of a multitude of strands.

Victor Hugo

A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.

Benjamin Franklin

No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

Napoleon Hill