Quotes about Mistakes
People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress.
— Norman Vincent Peale
And my number-one spiritual practice is trying to live in the present moment … to resist projecting into the future, or lamenting past mistakes … to feel the real power of now. That, my friends, is the secret to a joyful life.
— Oprah Winfrey
Even you are not rich enough, Sir Robert, to buy back your past. No man is
— Oscar Wilde
Wisdom has reference only to the past. The future remains for ever an infinite field for mistakes.
— DH Lawrence
There is in every department of investigation great liability to error. Almost all false theories in science and false doctrines in theology are due in a great degree to mistakes as to matters of fact.
— Charles Hodge
Rightly or wrongly, I want you to spend your life making music where the angels sing along. Being a reflection. I think that'd be a life well spent. I failed to say that before now, and for that I'm sorry. If I may offer one excuse - I've never raised a son before. Please allow a few mistakes. I'm figuring this out as we go.
— Charles Martin
Trifles make the sum of human things, and half our misery from our foibles springs.
— Hannah More
It is ignorance that causes most mistakes.
— Harry S. Truman
But it's the way we have used the intellect that has made the mess, not the intellect per se.
— Jane Goodall
We shall make mistakes; and if we let these mistakes frighten us from our work we shall show ourselves weaklings.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Alanis Morissette: "You live, you learn. You love, you learn. You cry, you learn. You lose, you learn." I think there's something pretty comforting in knowing that even the biggest mistakes I'm inevitably going to make will turn me into who I'll be at thirty.
— Pamela Redmond Satran
In school you're rewarded for not making mistakes.
— Dale Carnegie