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Quotes About Mistakes

In the early days of my first property management and real estate deals, there was a lot of trial and error and I made my share of mistakes. But for every one mistake I made, I learned ten lessons and got smarter every day. I started to see patterns, discover formulas and systems, and develop a network of people I could count on. It took time and it took work, but the more I pursued my dream, the luckier I felt and the more often magical opportunities presented themselves to me.
~ Ken McElroy
Extensive powers not exercised as far as was necessary have, I believe, scarcely ever failed to ruin the possessor.
~ George Washington
We thought we were done with these things but we were wrong. We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
~ Stephen Vincent Benet
Terrorists act as they do because they don't have great power at their easy disposal. The result is that they rely upon the ability to exploit the mistakes of others.
~ William F. Schulz
In 2003, Congress should have resisted the rush to a war of choice with Iraq. I will do everything in my power to prevent us from repeating the mistakes of my predecessors.
~ John Garamendi
You're saying the gods don't have free will." "The power to make mistakes," Penny said. "Only we have that. Mortals
~ Lev Grossman
The worst thing about having power over other people's lives is that you sometimes get things wrong.
~ Fredrik Backman, Beartown
How you correct your mistakes will define your character and commitment to a higher power.
~ Shannon L. Alder
It is good to pray for the repair of mistakes, but praying earlier would keep us from making so many. When puzzled, go to prayer and listen.
~ J. C. Macaulay
Earth bears no balsams for mistakes; Men crown the knave, and scourge the tool That did his will: but thou, O Lord, Be merciful to me, a fool.
~ Edward Rowland Sill
You gave me reason to believe that we were always meant to be, but now I see you were wrong, you can't keep running back to me with all them baby baby please, No More.
~ Faith Evans
I would say the hierarchy has made terrible errors in judgment and it has to seek forgiveness by its members.
~ William P. Leahy
The atrocious crime of being a young man, which the honorable gentleman [Walpole] has with such spirit and decency charged upon me, I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny; but content myself with wishing that I may be one of those whose follies may cease with their youth, and not of that number who are ignorant in spite of experience.
~ William Pitt (Earl of Chatham)
But men are men; the best sometimes forget.
~ William Shakespeare
They say, best men are moulded out of faults, And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad.
~ William Shakespeare
the golden pathway to learning, not just in music but in anything in life, is through one's own, individual, honest mistakes.
~ William Westney
Don't be afraid to ask dumb questions. They're more easily handled than dumb mistakes.
~ William Wister Haines
You will make all kinds of mistakes; but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you cannot hurt the world or even seriously distress her. She was made to be wooed and won by youth.
~ Winston Churchill
You will make all kinds of mistakes but as long as you are generous and true and fierce you cannot hurt the world, or even seriously distress her.
~ Winston Churchill
Computer machen keine Fehler, aber es ist nun einmal die Natur der Menschen, Fehler zu machen und daraus zu lernen. Nimm ihnen dieses Recht und du nimmst ihnen ihre Menschlichkeit
~ Wolfgang Hohlbein
Wenn er irgendwann einmal ein Buch der verpassten Chancen schreiben würde, dann würden die letzten beiden Tage darin einen besonderen Platz einnehmen. Gleich hinter dem Kapitel Gesammelte Dummheiten.
~ Wolfgang Hohlbein
He had a special feeling for what he called the "correct miscalculation," for he believed that mistakes were often as revealing as the right answers. This gave us confidence even when our best efforts came to nothing.
~ Y?ko Ogawa
He had a special feeling for what he called the "correct miscalculation," for he believed that mistakes were often as revealing as the right answers.
~ Y?ko Ogawa
The Professor never really seemed to care whether we figured out the right answer to a problem. He preferred our wild, desperate guesses to silence, and he was even more delighted when those guesses led to new problems that took us beyond the original one. He had a special feeling for what called the "correct miscalculation," for he believed that mistakes were often as revealing as the right answers.
~ Y?ko Ogawa