All of us make mistakes. The real question
is not whether we will make them, but what will we do with them.
Will we learn from our mistakes or repeat them? Will we steadfastly vow to learn
from our mistakes the first, the second time, the one hundredth time, or never? The following quotations, if
taken to heart, can help us use our experiences as wise men and women should:
to build a better tomorrow by making fewer mistakes today.
To Achieve Excellence, We
Must Learn From The Inevitable Mistakes of Life
"Mistakes are part of the dues one pays
for a full life."
Sophia Loren
"Mistakes are their own instructors."
Horace
"He who errs and mends, to God himself commends."
Miguel de Cervantes
"When you blunder, blunder forward."
Thomas Edison
"If you have made a mistake, even serious mistakes, there is always another
chance for you. ....for this thing we call "failure" is not the
falling down, but the staying down."
Mary Pickford
Mistakes Are Inevitable; Learning From
Them Is Optional
"Never confuse a single mistake with a final
mistake."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Man errs as long as he strives."
Goethe
"The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does
anything."
Teddy Roosevelt
"To stumble twice against the same stone is a proverbial disgrace."
Cicero
"The great virtue of man lies in his ability to correct his mistakes and
continually make a new man of himself."
Wang Yang-ming
We Should Be Courageous Enough to Make
Mistakes And Wise Enough To Learn From Them
"To be successful, you’ve got to be willing to
fail."
William Saroyan
"If I had my life to live over again, I'd dare to make more mistakes the
next time."
Nadine Stair
"How far high failure overleaps the bounds of low success."
Lewis Morris
"Throughout life, failure snaps at our heels like a great mongrel dog. The
key to success is realizing that the dog is really a harmless puppy."
Jackie Gleason
"An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a
very narrow field."
Niels Bohr
And Finally
"All of life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the
better."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"If you’re not making mistakes, then you’re not doing anything. I’m
positive that a doer makes mistakes."
John Wooden
"The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top,
if you make enough of them, it's considered to be your style."
Fred Astaire
"Mistakes are the portals of discovery."
James Joyce
"There is nothing final about a mistake, except its being taken as
final."
Phyllis Bottome
This page was written and
compiled by Criswell Freeman, Psy.D.
