Quotes About Mistakes

A youth's knowledge is like a cheap shotgun-likely to do as much damage to the owner as to the game.

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

I made mistakes. I let other people influence me and make decisions, sometimes without my knowledge.

Not knowing of the eternal leads to unfortunate errors.

...wisdom is in large part the knowledge of how to avoid doing dumb things, and thus grows globally as a function of the published inventory of stupid mistakes.

Many often errors lead to discoveries, but our fantasies and limitations are tested by blunders!

While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.

Don't buy into the notion that mistakes can somehow be avoided. They can't be.

He who makes no mistakes makes no progress.

Trying to grow up is hurting. You make mistakes. You try to learn from them, and when you don't, it hurts even more.

The learning person looks forward to failure or mistakes. The worst problem in leadership is basically early success.

Seek advice, but make sure it's from someone who has successfully handled mistakes or adversities.

People are not afraid of failure, they're afraid of blame.

One of my great mistakes coming up, since I was a kid from wrong side of the tracks, and fearful that I might be seen as wanting leadership-wise, was to be someone I was not.

Leadership involves the heavy burden of responsibility, and the fear of getting it wrong can paralyze a leader.

Total teachers aren't perfect teachers.

When people get drunk they do things they shouldn't do.

Everyone makes mistakes. The wise are not people who never make mistakes, but those who forgive themselves and learn from their mistakes.

Mistakes - call them unexpected learning experiences.

It's okay to learn from every experience, and it's okay to make mistakes.

Those who never make mistakes lose a great many chances to learn something

A little learning is a dangerous thing.

Mistakes are the necessary steps in the learning process; once they have served their purpose, they should be forgotten and not repeated.

Never be afraid to fail. Be afraid of not learning from mistakes.