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Mistakes

Admitting Error clears the Score
And proves you Wiser than before.--Arthur Guiterman ("Of Apology" A Poet's Proverbs)
After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery. It's better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.--Sophia Loren
Any fool can try to defend his mistakes--and most fools do--but it gives one a feeling of nobility to admit one's mistakes. By fighting, you never get enough, but by yielding, you get more than you expected.--Lawrence G. Lovasik (The Hidden Power of Kindness)
Anyone who doesn't make mistakes isn't trying hard enough.--Wess Roberts
Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.--Paul J. Meyer
Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones of genius.--Elbert Hubbard (The Philosophy of Elbert Hubbard)
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.--Scott Adams
Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.--Mary Lou Cook
The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake...--Nelson Boswell
Do not learn from your mistakes, learn from the mistakes of others so that you do not make any.--Sean Karsten
An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.--Orlando A. Battista
Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.--Pearl S. Buck
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.--Gertrude Stein
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.--Oscar Wilde
Experience is that marvelous thing that enable you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.--Franklin P. Jones
Experience is the name everyone gives to his mistakes.--Elbert Hubbard
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.--Niels Bohr
The galleries are full of critics. They play no ball, they fight no fights. They make no mistakes because they attempt nothing. Down in the arena are the doers. They make mistakes because they try many things. The man who makes no mistakes lacks boldness and the spirit of adventure. He is the one who never tries anything. His is the brake on the wheel of progress. And yet it cannot be truly said he makes no mistakes, because his biggest mistake is the very fact that he tries nothing, does nothing, except criticize those who do things.--Gen. David M. Shoup
Give me a fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself.--Vilfredo Pareto
Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibres.--Victor Hugo (Les Miserables, tr. by Wilbour)
The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.--John Maxwell
The greatest mistake a man can make is to be afraid of making one.--Elbert Hubbard
The greatest right in the world is the right to be wrong.--William Randolph
Half our mistakes in life arise from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel.--John Churton Collins
History informs us of past mistakes from which we can learn without repeating them. It also inspires us and gives confidence and hope bred of victories already won.--William Hastie
I believe that no matter how many mistakes we’ve made; how badly we’ve really, really screwed up; how old, worn out, or dejected we’ve become; as long as there is true, steadfast ambition, all of us have an opportunity for greatness.--Dave Pelzer
I hate all bungling like sin, but most of all bungling in state affairs, which produces nothing but mischief to thousands and millions.--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (in Conversations with Goethe by Eckermann)
If I had to live my life over again, I'd dare to make more mistakes next time.--Nadine Stair
If I ran a school, I'd give the average grade to the ones who gave me all the right answers, for being good parrots. I'd give the top grades to those who made a lot of mistakes and told me about them, and then told me what they learned from them.--R. Buckminster Fuller
If you can't make a mistake, you can't make anything.--Marva Collins
If you have to make mistakes, make them good and big, don't be middling if you can help it.--Hildegard Knef (The Verdict)
If you're not making mistakes, you're not taking risks, and that means you're not going anywhere. The key is to make mistakes faster than the competition, so you have more changes to learn and win.--John W. Holt, Jr. (Celebrate Your Mistakes)
In all the work we do, our most valuable asset can be the attitude of self-examination. It is forgivable to make mistakes, but to stand fast behind a wall of self-righteousness and make the same mistake twice is not forgivable.--Dale Turner
In examining the potential of individuals, we must focus on their strengths and not just their mistakes. We cannot be limited by what they may have spilled in the kitchen.--William Pollard (The Soul of the Firm)
It is easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit to forgive them for having witnessed your own.--Jessamyn West
It is not easy, but you have to be willing to make mistakes. And the earlier you make those mistakes, the better.--Jane Cahill Pfeiffer
It is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them. To make a mistake is only an error in judgment, but to adhere to it when it is discovered shows infirmity of character.--Dale Turner
Know when to tune out. If you listen to too much advice, you may wind up making other people's mistakes.--Ann Landers
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.--William Connor Magee
The man who never makes a mistake always takes orders from one who does.--Anonymous
A mistake in judgment isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgment is.--Pauline Kael
A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.--Robert Fripp
A mistake is simply another way of doing things.--Katherine Graham
Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to error that counts.--Nikki Giovanni
Mistakes are a natural part of growing up. They're to be expected and made light of. But children bloom like spring flowers under praise. They want so much to be noticed and appreciated, to excel and have that excellence noticed.--Earl Nightingale
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.--Denis Waitley
Mistakes are stepping stones to success.--Charles E. Popplestone
Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.--Edward de Bono (Serious Creativity)
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
People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.--Peter Drucker
People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress.--Dale Turner
Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.--Dan McKinnon
Seymour Cray was a friend of my dad's. I asked him what it was like to know the genius who had built the world's first supercomputer company. My dad said, "Well, actually, son, he wasn't so much smarter than me. He just made mistakes a hundred times faster."--Townes Duncan
Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.--Dale Turner
Strong people make as many and as ghastly mistakes as weak people. The difference is that strong people admit them, laugh at them, learn form them. This is how they become strong.--Richard Needham
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.--George Bernard Shaw
There are no mistakes, save one: the failure to learn from a mistake.--Robert Fripp
There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go.--Richard Bach
To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is swear off having ideas.--Leo Burnett
We may make mistakes--but they must never be mistakes which result from faintness of heart or abandonment of moral principles.--Franklin D. Roosevelt (Fourth Inaugural Address January 20, 1945)
While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, another is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.--Henry C. Link
The wisest of the wise may err.--Aeschylus
You are just as capable of making a mistake as anyone else. By insisting too eagerly upon a small right, you may turn it into a wrong against yourself and also against your neighbor.--Lawrence G. Lovasik (The Hidden Power of Kindness)
You may make mistakes, but you are not a failure until you start blaming someone else.--Anonymous
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.--Denis Waitley