Quotes about Mistakes

They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward.

History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.

You can be discouraged by failure--or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success. On the far side.

People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress.

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.

Even you are not rich enough, Sir Robert, to buy back your past. No man is

Wisdom has reference only to the past. The future remains for ever an infinite field for mistakes.

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.

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.

Trifles make the sum of human things, and half our misery from our foibles springs.

It is ignorance that causes most mistakes.

But it's the way we have used the intellect that has made the mess, not the intellect per se.