A man finds he has been wrong at every stage of his career only to deduce the astonishing conclusion that he is at last entirely right.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
One loss is good for the soul. Too many losses are not good for the coach.
~ Knute Rockne
In all science error precedes the truth and it is better it should go first than last.
~ Hugh Walpole
In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.
~ Bill Vaughan
Virtually nothing comes out right the first time. Failures repeated failures are finger posts on the road to achievement. The only time you don't want to fail is the last time you try something.... One fails forward toward success.
~ Charles F. Kettering
A clever man commits no minor blunders.
~ Johann Von Goethe
Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.
~ Edward Dowden
No man ever progressed to greatness and goodness but through great mistakes.
~ Frederick W. Robertson
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood who strives valiantly who errs and comes short again and again who knows the great enthusiasms the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy cause who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst if he fails at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
The errors of great men are venerable because they are more fruitful than the truths of little men.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
There is something distinguished about even his failures they sink not trivially but with a certain air of majesty like a great ship its flags flying full of holes.
~ George Jean Nathan
If all else fails immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
In a great mistake.
~ Nathalia Crane
Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
~ J. Robert Oppenheimer
If you have made mistakes even serious mistakes there is always another chance for you.
~ Mary Pickford
Life like war is a series of mistakes and he is best who wins the most splendid victories by the retrieval of mistakes.
A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.
~ Confucius
The great virtue of man lies in his ability to correct his mistakes and to continually make a new man of himself.
~ Wang Yang-Ming
It is only error in judgement to make a mistake but it shows infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.
~ Christian Bovee
It is human to err but it is devilish to remain willfully in error.
~ Saint Augustine
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes but quickly to see how to make them good.
~ Bertolt Brecht
Our mistakes won't irreparably damage our lives unless we let them.
~ James E. Sweeney
Peole do think that if they avoid the truth it might change to something better before they have to hear it.
~ Marsha Norman
We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until... we have stopped saying It got lost and say I lost it.
~ Sydney J. Harris
I've arrived at this outermost edge of my life by my own actions. Where I am is thoroughly unacceptable. Therefore I must stop doing what I have been doing.
~ Alice Koller
Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures.
~ Bernard M. Baruch
I believe we are solely responsible for our choices and we have to accept the consequences of every deed word and thought throughout our lifetime.
~ Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He does not say My men were beaten he says I was beaten.
~ Antoine De Saint-Exupéry
The most considerable difference I note among men is not in their readiness to fall into error but in their readiness to acknowledge these inevitable lapses.
~ Thomas Henry Huxley
It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes. It takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.
~ Jessamyn West
Whenever at an accusation blind rage burns up within us the reason is that some arrow has pierced the joints of our harness. Behind our shining armour of righteous indignation lurks a convicted and only half-repentant sinner ... [and] we may be almost sure some sharp and bitter grain of truth lurks within it and the wound is best probed.
~ Jane Harrison
The fault dear Brutus is not in our stars but in ourselves.
~ William Shakespeare
There's folks 'ud stand on their heads and then say the fault was i' their boots.
~ George Eliot
Admitting error clears the score and proves you wiser than before.
~ Arthur Guiterman
Mistakes fail in their mission of helping the person who blames them on the other fellow.
~ Henry S. Haskins
I have known men who could see through the motivations of others with the skill of a clairvoyant only to prove blind to their own mistakes. I have been one of those men.
I have made mistakes but I have never made the mistake of claiming that I never made one.
~ James Gordon Bennett
The man who can own up to his error is greater than he who merely knows how to avoid making it.
~ Cardinal De Retz
A man may fall many times but he won't be a failure until he says that someone pushed him.
~ Elmer G. Letterman
Do not be afraid of mistakes providing you do not make the same one twice.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
