Quotes on Mistake

I am sure that the mistakes of that time will not be repeated; we should probably make another set of mistakes.

Avarice often produces opposite results: there are an infinite number of persons who sacrifice their property to doubtful and distant expectations; others mistake great future advantages for small present interests.

Rich men are to bear the infirmities of the poor. Wise men are to bear the mistakes of the ignorant. Strong men are to bear with the feeble. Cultured people are to bear with the rude and vulgar. If a rough and coarse man meets an ecstatically fine man, the man that is highest up is to be the servant of the man that is lowest down.

Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase.

Without the errors which lie in the assumption of morality, man would have remained an animal.

Politics, like religion, hold up the torches of martyrdom to the reformers of error.

I make more mistakes than anyone else I know, and sooner or later, I patent most of them.

There is no such thing as failure. Mistakes happen in your life to bring into focus more clearly who you really are.

I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're Doing Something.

Golf is the only game where the worst player gets the best of it. He obtains more out of it as regards both exercise and enjoyment, for the good player gets worried over the slightest mistake, whereas the poor player makes too many mistakes to worry about them.

I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

You cannot make a mistake, you can only make a decision that will be your next best step.

The biggest mistake coaches make is taking borderline cases and trying to save them. I'm not talking about grades now, I'm talking about character. I want to know before a boy enrolls about his home life, and what his parents want him to be.

Take all that is given whether wealth, love or language, nothing comes by mistake and with good digestion all can be turned to health.

If one has such an encounter it is to be expected it will bring him into conflict, especially conflict with himself, because one sometimes literally does not know what to do or what not to do. But is this struggle and even the mistakes one may make, not better, and do they not develop us more than if we keep systematically away from emotions?

All the same don't forget that you're young — blessedly young; be glad of it on the contrary and live up to it. Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life.

It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.

It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom; without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail. It is a grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.

One thing is certain in business, you and everyone around you will make mistakes.

No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.