Quotes About Mistakes

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.

Grateful for his mistakes, man should be the gods, because by overcoming the faults the stronger force is developed.

Show me a man who makes no mistakes, and I will show you a man who doesn't do things.

men don't make different mistakes at different periods of their lives. They make the same mistake over and over again and they pay a bigger and bigger price for it.

A man may not transgress the bounds of major morals, but may make errors in minor morals.

He that seeks perfection upon earth leaves nothing new for the saints to find in heaven; for whilst men teach, there will be mistakes in divinity, and as long as no other govern, errors in the State.

Men ought to be most annoyed by the sufferings which come from their own faults.

Someone once said that every man is trying to live up to his father's expectations or make up for their father's mistakes.

Oh, my dating skills are the worst. No, I pick the wrong men; it's amazing. I am awful, the worst dater.

Too much pessimism has led too many men into making serious mistakes. And perhaps part of our pessimism comes because we are too close to ourselves to see in proper perspective.

Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been.

A man who does not make mistakes does not make anything

No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so.

That which occasions so many mistakes in the computations of men, when they expect return for favors, is that the giver's pride and the receiver's cannot agree upon the value of the kindness done.

I've been married 34 years. I have not been a perfect man. I have made mistakes in my life.

[Man] progresses in all things by making a fool of himself.

Great men too make mistakes, and many among them do it so often that one is almost tempted to call them little men.

Great men in teaching weak men to reflect have set them on the road to error.

In a narrow sphere great men are blunderers.

Success has ruin'd many a man.

Since Adam and Eve ate the apple, man has never refrained from any folly of which he was capable.

Experience can dull. With most men experience is a series of mistakes; the more experience you have the less you know.

The wise man understands his weakness and seeks to find a lesson from it. The fool lets it control and destroy him.

Many a man spanks his children for things his own father should have spanked out of him.