Quotes about Mistakes

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

It is the privilege of true genius, And especially genius who opens up a new path, To make great mistakes with impunity

Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them.

History isn't just the story of bad people doing bad things. It's quite as much a story of people trying to do good things. But somehow, something goes wrong.

I'll never be a non-stumbler. I'll be a forgiven stumbler, but never a non-stumbler.

Guilt starts as a feeling of failure.

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.

Sometimes you find out what you are supposed to be doing by doing the things you are not supposed to do.

As a manager, you have to accept the fact that people will make mistakes, but not intentionally, and that mistakes are the price of learning and self-sufficiency.

Another common misconception: You need to learn from your mistakes. What do you really learn from mistakes? You might learn what not to do again, but how valuable is that? You still don't know what you should do next. Contrast that with learning from your successes.

Sometimes life seems like a match between oneself and one's gaolors. The gaolers, of course, are one's mistakes; and the question is, who'll hold out longest? When I think of that, life instead of being too long, seems as short as a winter day....

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.