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Quotes about Mistakes

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong,
who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
- Bono

Related topics: Life Human-Nature Psychology

The physician can bury his mistakes,
but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines -
so they should go as far as possible from home
to build their first buildings.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

Success seems to be connected with action.
Successful people keep moving.
They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
- Conrad Hilton

I claim to be a simple individual liable
to err like any other fellow mortal.
I own, however, that I have humility enough
to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

A doctor can bury his mistakes
but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

I never make stupid mistakes.
Only very, very clever ones.
- John Peel

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom.
It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest
might weaken and the wisest might err.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

To err is human, to forgive divine.
- Alexander Pope

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
- Carl Jung

It's okay to make mistakes.
Mistakes are our teachers - they help us to learn.
- John Bradshaw

Achievement seems to be connected with action.
Successful men and women keep moving.
They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
- Conrad Hilton

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
- Oscar Wilde

I've learned that mistakes can often be
as good a teacher as success.
- Jack Welch

Trust your own instinct.
Your mistakes might as well be your own,
instead of someone else's.
- Billy Wilder

I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure.
I make mistakes, I am out of control
and at times hard to handle.
But if you can't handle me at my worst,
then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.
- Marilyn Monroe

Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition.
The immature mind often mistakes one for the other,
or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy -
in fact, they're almost incompatible;
one emotion hardly leaves room for the other.
Both at once can produce unbearable turmoil.
- Robert Heinlein

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
- James Joyce

You know, everybody makes mistakes when they are president.
- William J. Clinton

Remember, there are no mistakes, only lessons.
Love yourself, trust your choices, and everything is possible.
- Cherie-Carter Scotts

Freedom is not worth having if it
does not connote freedom to err.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

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.
- Carl Jung

There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth
- not going all the way and not starting.
- The Buddha

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

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth;
not going all the way, and not starting.
- The Buddha

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself,
and know that everything in life has purpose.
There are no mistakes, no coincidences,
all events are blessings given to us to learn from.
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Mistake Quotes and Sayings

A person who never made a mistake
never tried anything new.
- Albert Einstein

He who never made a mistake,
never made a discovery.
- Samuel Smiles

Guilt says I've done something wrong;
... shame says there is something wrong with me.
Guilt says I've made a mistake;
... shame says I am a mistake.
Guilt says what did was not good;
... shame says I am no good.
- John Bradshaw

Without music, life would be a mistake...
I would only believe in a God who knew how to dance.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

It is a mistake to look too far ahead.
Only one link in the chain of destiny
can be handled at a time.
- Winston Churchill

The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming
that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.
- Edward R. Murrow

He who joyfully marches in rank and file
has already earned my contempt.
He has been given a large brain by mistake,
since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
- Albert Einstein

Anyone who has never made a mistake,
has never tried anything new.
- Albert Einstein

The biggest mistake we could ever make in our lives
is to think we work for anybody but ourselves.
- Brian Tracy

Many people mistake our work for our vocation.
Our vocation is the love of Jesus.
- Mother Teresa

Mistaken Quotes and Sayings

Self-respect is often mistaken for arrogance
when in reality it is the opposite.
When we can recognize all our good qualities
as well as or faults with neutrality,
we can start to appreciate ourselves
as we would a dear friend
and experience the comfortable inner glow of respect.
To embrace the journey towards our full potential
we need to become our own loving teacher and coach.
Spurring ourselves on to become better human beings,
we develop true regard for ourselves,
and our life will become sacred.
- Osho

Self Quotes and Sayings

Weariness comes, on some days, from lack of service to self.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

No amount of self-improvement can make up
for a lack of self-acceptance.
- Anonymous

Happiness blooms
in the presence of self-respect,
and the absence of ego.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I'm not a genius.
I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

No one is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus

Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill

Everyone thinks of changing the world,
but no one thinks of changing himself.
- Leo Tolstoy

Don't look for approval from anyone other than yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself,
than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
- Henry David Thoreau

People can be more forgiving than you can imagine.
But you have to forgive yourself.
Let go of what's bitter and move on.
- Bill Cosby

No one is in control of your happiness but you;
therefore, you have the power to change anything
about yourself or your life that you want to change.
- Barbara De Angelis

The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?
- Henry David Thoreau

You get what you settle for.
- the character Louise in the movie Thelma and Louise

We disrespect ourselves and our free-will
whenever we say that we NEED to do something.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Free-Will is the key to the prison of the mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Freedom is from within.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

We must be our own before we can be another's.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
- Mark Twain

Make the most of yourself,
for that is all there is of you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Goes the song, "we change, we change."
But the music is still mine.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Make your "yes" mean yes,
and your "no" mean no.
- John Wooden

Real excellence and humility are
not incompatible one with the other,
on the contrary they are twin sisters.
- Jean Baptiste Lacordaire

We all go through life bristling
at our external limitations,
but the most difficult chains
to break are inside us.
- Bradley Whitford

Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

A man who doesn't trust himself
can never really trust anyone else.
- Cardinal De Retz

The importance of history is in it's
educational value for our lives today,
not in regret, resentment, or revenge.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If you fear making anyone mad,
then you ultimately probe for
the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
- Jimmy Carter

I have a great deal of company in the house,
especially in the morning when nobody calls.
- Henry David Thoreau

Every man has his own courage,
and is betrayed because he seeks in himself
the courage of other persons.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

He who lives in harmony with himself
lives in harmony with the universe.
- Marcus Aurelius

Ninety-nine percent of who you are
is invisible and untouchable.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

To travel is to take a journey into yourself.
- Danny Kaye

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