Mistakes Quotes

To stumble twice against the same stone is a proverbial disgrace.

~ Cicero

Fool me once shame on you fool me twice shame on me.

~ Chinese Proverb

There is no reason to repeat bad history.

~ Eleanor Holmes Norton

I try to extract something positive from [every] situation even if it's just learning not to make the same mistake twice.

~ Claudia Schiffer

He who is shipwrecked twice is foolish to blame the sea.

~ Publilius Syrus

He who is shipwrecked the second time cannot lay the blame on Neptune.

~ English Proverb

He that's cheated twice by the same man is an accomplice with the cheater.

~ Thomas Fuller

If you would not have affliction visit you twice listen at once to what it teaches.

~ James Burgh

You can beat the Bear once but never the same way twice.

~ John Mckay

Any man can make mistakes but only an idiot persists in his error.

~ Cicero

There is nothing wrong with making mistakes. Just don't respond with encores.

~ Anonymous

The road to wisdom? Well it's plain and simple to express: Err and err and err again. But less and less and less.

~ Piet Hein

I made a mistake today I made a mistake yesterday. I think it's ... very important to ignore the negative.

~ Jerry Rubin

The biggest quality in successful people I think is an impatience with negative thinking. ... How many opportunities come along? If you wait for the right one that's wrong because it may never be right and what have you got to lose? Even if it's a disaster you've tried you've learned something you've had an adventure. And that doesn't mean you can't do it again.

~ Edward Mccabe

A peacefulness follows any decision even the wrong one.

~ Rita Mae Brown

If you don't accept failure as a possibility you don't set high goals you don't branch out you don't try - you don't take the risk.

~ Rosalynn Carter

When we can begin to take our failures non-seriously it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

~ Katherine Mansfield

If I lose I'll walk away and never feel bad.... Because I did all I could there was nothing more to do.

~ Joe Frazier

A man must learn to forgive himself.

~ Arthur Davison Ficke

You must accept that you might fail then if you do your best and still don't win at least you can be satisfied that you've tried.

~ Rosalynn Carter

Who would not rather trust and be deceived?

~ Eliza Cook

Forget mistakes. Forget failure. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day.

~ Will Durant

There is a way to look at the past. Don't hide from it. It will not catch you if you don't repeat it.

~ Pearl Bailey

Forget your mistakes but remember what they taught you.

~ Dorothy Galyean

Supposing you have tried and failed again and again. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose for this thing that we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.

~ Mary Pickford

Failure is a disappointment but not defeat.

~ Jeanne Robertson

Memories are the key not to the past but to the future.

~ Corrie Ten Boom

Failure is delay but not defeat. It is a temporary detour not a dead-end street.

~ William A. Ward

Finite to fail but infinite to venture.

~ Emily Dickinson

When in doubt make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell leap.

~ Cynthia Heimel

Failure really isn't terrible if you can say to yourself hey I know I'm gonna be successful at what I want to do someday. Failure doesn't become a big hangup then because it's only temporary. If failure is absolute then it would be a disaster but as long as it's only temporary you can just go and achieve almost anything.

~ Jerry Delia Femina

Failure is an event never a person.

~ William D. Brown

It is better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too late.

~ Marilyn Moats Kennedy

I've never met a person I don't care what his condition in whom I could not see possibilities. I don't care how much a man may consider himself a failure I believe in him for he can change the thing that is wrong in his life anytime he is prepared and ready to do it. Whenever he develops the desire he can take away from his life the thing that is defeating it. The capacity for reformation and change lies within.

~ Preston Bradley

I think and think for months for years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

~ Albert Einstein

Take chances make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.

~ Mary Tyler Moore

Take risks. You can't fall off the bottom.

~ Barbara Proctor

When it goes wrong you feel like cutting your throat but you go on. You don't let anything get you down so much that it beats you or stops you.

~ George Cukor

You must have long-range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short-range failures.

~ Charles C. Noble

Life is a series of relapses and recoveries.

~ George Ade