Quotes About Mistakes

The best brewer sometimes makes bad beer.

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

Only he who does nothing makes no mistakes.

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

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.

The greatest general is he who makes the fewest mistakes.

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.

No man ever progressed to greatness and goodness but through great mistakes.

Life, like war, is a series of mistakes, and he is best who wins the most splendid victories by the retrieval of mistakes.

The great virtue of man lies in his ability to correct his mistakes and to continually make a new man of himself.

Our mistakes won't irreparably damage our lives unless we let them.

There is no reason to repeat bad history.

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

They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward.

Some of the biggest failures I ever had were successes.

If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down.

We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we can do ... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from poor judgment.

From their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

The psychotherapist learns little or nothing from his successes. They mainly confirm him in his mistakes, while his failures, on the other hand, are priceless experiences in that they not only open up the way to a deeper truth, but force him to change his views and methods.

It's good to fail now and again - you learn a lot more out of failure than you do out of success.

When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind, and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.

The causes of mistakes are "I didn't know"; "I didn't think"; and "I didn't care."

He who lives without committing any folly is not so wise as he thinks.