Mistakes Quotes

Failure is not sweet but it need not be bitter.

~ Anonymous

The ultimate umpire of all things in life is - fact.

~ Agnes C. Laut

Losses are comparative imagination only makes them of any moment.

~ Blaise Pascal

I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

~ Sophocles

Disillusion is a natural stage that follows the holding of an illusion.

~ Susan Shaughnessy

If any good results to a man from believing a lie it certainly comes from the honesty of his belief.

~ Margaret Collier Graham

Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.

~ Rosalind Russell

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

If you're gonna be a failure at least be one at something you enjoy.

~ Sylvester Stallone

Who would not rather flounder in the fight than not have known the glory of the fray?

~ Richard Hovey

Better a false belief than no belief at all.

~ George Eliot

A mistake is simply another way of doing things.

~ Katherine Graham

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

~ Abraham Lincoln

Three failures denotes uncommon strength. A weakling had not enough grit to fail thrice.

~ Minna Antrim

A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life and find solace in fantasy.

~ G. K. Chesterton

All sins cast long shadows.

~ Irish Proverb

Cowardice as distinguished from panic is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.

~ Ernest Hemingway

Every time history repeats itself the price goes up.

~ Old Saying

The first duty of an historian is to be on his guard against his own sympathies.

~ J. A. Froude

The weak have one weapon: the errors of those who think they are strong.

~ Georges Bidault

Nothing is so simple that it cannot be misunderstood.

~ Freeman Teague

Too much talk will include errors.

~ Burmese Proverb

What is the use of running when you are on the wrong road?

~ Old Saying

Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.

~ Benjamin Disraeli

Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

~ J. Robert Oppenheimer

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

~ Anonymous

I beseech you in the bowels of Christ think it possible you may be mistaken.

~ Oliver Cromwell

Men are men they needs must err.

~ Euripides

A clever man commits no minor blunders.

~ Goethe

There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men. Imagine a congress of eminent celebrities such as More Bacon Grotius Pascal Cromwell Bossuet Montesquieu Jefferson Napoleon Pitt etc. The result would be an Encyclopedia of Errors.

~ Lord Acton

Most men would rather be charged with malice than with making a blunder.

~ Josh Billings

It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes. It takes more gut and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

~ Jessamyn West

Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published every day like those of a baseball player.

~ Anonymous

It's over and can't be helped and that's one consolation as they always say in Turkey when they cut the wrong man's head off.

~ Charles Dickens

A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.

~ Norman Douglas

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

~ Robert Frost

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

~ Steve Jobs

One thing is certain in business. You and everyone around you will make mistakes.

~ Richard Branson

Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made.

~ Bill Cosby

I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're doing something.

~ Neil Gaiman