MISTAKES QUOTES III

quotations about mistakes

Mistakes are information about what works and what doesn't work. They have nothing to do with your worth or intelligence. They are merely steps to a goal.

JOHN BRADSHAW

Healing the Shame that Binds You


Everyone thinks I'm a smart arse who can solve any bloody problem. I'm not. I'm just a very old businessman and a very experienced businessman who made every mistake in the book and can recognise one when I see one.

JOHN HARVEY-JONES

The Telegraph, January 10, 2008


When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.

PAULO COELHO

Brida


To err is human, but it feels divine.

MAE WEST

The Wit and Wisdom of Mae West

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I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.

GENE FOWLER

Skyline


Our failures or mistakes give us important feedback on what we need to change or concentrate on in the future.

DANA LIGHTMAN

Power Optimism

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Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL

Cambridge Thirty Years Ago

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The errors of a man are what make him really lovable.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe

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I never make the same mistake twice. I make it five or six times, you know, just to be sure.

ANONYMOUS

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Other kings let their ministers make their mistakes for them, but Louis insisted on making the important mistakes personally.

WILL CUPPY

The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody

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Mistakes are the growing pains of wisdom, the assessments we pay on our stock of experience, the raw material of error to be transformed into higher living. Without them there would be no individual growth, no progress, no conquest.

WILLIAM GEORGE JORDAN

The Crown of Individuality


If you want to condemn yourself for the mistakes you've made, let's be fair, that means you've got to congratulate yourself for all the good things you've done. It's okay to say, "God, I wish I'd done this; yeah, but I did do that." Then it kind of balances out.

TIM ALLEN

Reader's Digest, October 2001

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An error is not a mistake until you refuse to correct it.

GRENVILLE KLEISER

Dictionary of Proverbs

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Behold the truth
Whenever heart may ache
There is a glory
In a great mistake.

NATHALIA CRANE

"Imperfection", Swear By the Night and Other Poems


When people once are in the wrong,
Each line they add is much too long;
Who fastest walks, but walks astray,
Is only furthest from his way.

MATTHEW PRIOR

Alma


There is something to be said for every error; but, whatever may be said for it, the most important thing to be said about it is that it is erroneous.

G. K. CHESTERTON

The Illustrated London News, April 25, 1931

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Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

C. G. JUNG

C. G. Jung: Psychological Reflections

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Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.

AL FRANKEN

Oh, the Things I Know


A step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.

KURT VONNEGUT

Player Piano

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What an unchallenging life it would be if we always got things right on the first go.

RANSOM RIGGS

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

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