Mistakes Quotes

In the end, the only way is to be better than that person who let you down... and better than the monster you used to be...

~ Paul Nat

Every life is a story. Every story has mistakes. If you focus too much on the mistakes, you will miss the story. In doing that, you are making a dreadful mistake yourself. Sometimes, it is the mistakes that enrich and give the story so much more meaning than it would have had otherwise.

~ Beverly S. Harless

Anyone can make a mistake.... It's how they learn from it and recover from it that shows their true worth.

~ John Flanagan

Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius.

~ Elbert Hubbard

Every second a seeker can start over,For his life's mistakesAre initial draftsAnd not the final version.

~ Sri Chinmoy

I'll be quite for now because I make mistakes too... but once The Perfect Almighty One judges you, there are no excuses.

~ A Gentlemen

if everything that is happening in the world is traceable to our inability to understand what is happening in the world.  If there is such a thing as original sin, it's the human capacity to get everything wrong, right from the beginning and all the way up to now, and that's what the old storytellers have been telling us, including the Creek Indians who told this story along with every other tribe on earth. 

~ Gerald Hausman

Imagine a congress of eminent celebrities such as More Bacon Grotius Pascal Cromwell Bossuet Montesquieu Jefferson Napoleon Pitt etc. They would be an Encyclopedia of Errors.

~ Lord Acton

Flops are a part of life's menu and Eve never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.

~ Rosalind Russell

Every man's got to figure to get beat sometime.

~ Joe Louis

Who thinks it just to be judged by a single error?

~ Beryl Markham

Man errs as long as he struggles.

~ Johann Von Goethe

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

~ Sophia Loren

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

~ Phyllis Therous

Be aware that young people have to be able to make their own mistakes and that times change.

~ Gina Shapira

The best brewer sometimes makes bad beer.

~ German Proverb

We must somehow get comfortable with the reality of periodic failure. ... Like a trip to the dentist the thought of occasional reverses may not make us tingle with joyful anticipation but then again it's not the end of the world.

~ Sam Collins

The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.

~ Voltaire

All men are liable to error and most men are ... by passion or interest under temptation to it.

~ John Locke

To err is human to forgive divine.

~ Alexander Pope

Show me a person who has never made a mistake and Ell show you somebody who has never achieved much.

~ Joan Collins

He only is exempt from failures who makes no effort.

~ Richard Whately

Only he who does nothing makes no mistakes.

~ French Proverb

The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything.

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Life is not life unless you make mistakes.

~ Joan Collins

We all choke and the man who says he doesn't choke is lying like hell. We all leak oil.

~ Lee Trevino

He who has never failed somewhere that man cannot be great.

~ Herman Melville

He is always right who suspects that he makes mistakes.

~ Spanish Proverb

The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.

~ Bishop Wc. Magee

A good marksman may miss.

~ Thomas Fuller

He that has much to do will do something wrong.

~ Samuel Johnson

For a just man falleth seven times and riseth up again.

~ Bible

To make no mistake is not in the power of man but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

~ Plutarch

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection.

~ William Faulkner

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

~ Elbert Hubbard

The fellow who never makes a mistake takes his orders from one who does.

~ Herbert B. Prochnow

Accept that all of us can be hurt that all of us can - and surely will at times - fail. Other vulnerabilities like being embarrassed or risking love can be terrifying too. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst take the risk.

~ Dr. Joyce Brothers

The greatest general is he who makes the fewest mistakes.

~ Napoléon Bonaparte

War is a series of catastrophes that results in victory.

~ Georges Clémenceau

Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.

~ Anonymous