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Quotes About Mistakes

In some organizations, it is easy to say mistakes are okay when in truth it is a zero-defect organization. You will be remembered more for your mistakes than your successes in those organizations.
~ John Daly
Errors, to be dangerous, must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation.
~ Sydney Smith
Error is just as important a condition of life's progress as truth
~ Carl Jung
Countless mistakes in marriage, parenting, ministry, and other relationships are failures to balance grace and truth. Sometimes we neglect both. Often we choose one over the other.
~ Randy Alcorn
If both John McCain and Obama were given a sip of truth serum, both would admit they made serious mistakes in choosing running mates in 2008.
~ Douglas Wilder
Of course I shall go astray often...for who does not make mistakes? But I cannot go far wrong for I have seen the truth.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
When you're young you don't know anything, but you have lot of energy to express yourself. So you make a lot of mistakes and you stumble, but you also get a lot of truth from within.
~ Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero
The truth was, history repeated itself on a daily basis; mistakes were made over and over. People were haunted by what they had done, and by what they hadn't had time to do.
~ Jodi Picoult
The truth is, there is no line. There's only your life, how you mess it up, and who is there to save you. Or who isn't.
~ Mitch Albom
The truth is, almost everything we do is done poorly when we first start doing it – that's how we learn.
~ Rick Warren
The freedom to make and admit mistakes is at the core of the scientific process. If we are asked to forswear error, or worse, to say that error means fraud, then we cannot function as scientists.
~ Robert Pollack
Men must fumble awhile with error to separate it from truth, I think- as long as they don't seize the error hungrily because it has a pleasanter taste.
~ Walter M. Miller, Jr.
Because supposedly those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it.
~ Chuck Palahniuk, Choke
Nervousness always provokes mistakes, and mistakes lead to easy convictions.
~ S.R. Ford, Mimgardr
The past is behind us unless we fail to learn from it.
~ L.M. Fields
It's so hard, " Andy said. "When you don't have anyone.""Yeah, I know, " Gerri agreed. "Yet it's harder when you have the wrong one.
~ Robyn Carr, Four Friends
To err is human. To count other people's errors is humane
~ Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land
Perfection is a thousand mistakes behind curtains.
~ Yarro Rai
True friends will always push you towards the great possibilities of your future, false friends will always chain you to the mistakes in your past.
~ Seth Brown
Because lies outpace the truth, sooner or later you will trip up on your own tongue.
~ Anthnoy T.Hincks
Reason why scars form is to show that man can survive his own stupidity Anastasius Focht talking to Phelan Kell on the Dire Wolf
~ Michael A. Stackpole
He felt, and not for the first time today, that he had not made a good decision in his personal or professional life since 1989.
~ Michael Chabon
the demon virtues — patience, deception, quick hands, craftiness, an for the mistakes of others
~ Michael Chabon
has become strong over the past four years. He thinks he is invincible. It is a common trait in the disassembling phase of a psychopath. A state of confidence and invulnerability rises as, in actuality, the psychopath is making more and more mistakes. Disassembling. Becoming vulnerable to discovery." "So because he has gotten away with his actions for four years, he thinks he is clear and is so untouchable
~ Michael Connelly