Blunders Quotes

147 quotes by 124 authors

There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder. — Alfred Austin
An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person. — Joseph Addison
The destruction of India's village system was the greatest of England's blunders. — Annie Besant
All men die. You may say: 'Is that encouraging?' Surely yes, for when a man dies, his blunders, which are of the form, all die… — Annie Besant
We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made… — William Ellery Channing
War is mainly a catalogue of blunders. — Winston Churchill
No one can tell you what is right for you except yourself. So start telling yourself what to do. If you blunder for ten years… — Vernon Howard
The art of giving orders is not to try to rectify the minor blunders and not be swayed by petty doubts. — Sun Tzu
You do not know the unfathomable cowardice of humanity...servile in the face of force, pitiless in the face of weakness, implacable before blunders, indulgent before… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Never make the blunder of trying to forecast the way God is going to answer your prayer. — Oswald Chambers
Success covers a multitude of blunders. — George Bernard Shaw
When everything else failed, we can still become immortal by making an enormous blunder... — John Kenneth Galbraith
One man may hit the mark, another blunder; but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, working with and through the… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
In Hitler's launching of the Nazi campaign on Russia, we can already see, after six months of fighting, that he has made one of the… — Winston Churchill
Here lies the body of my good horse, The General. For years he bore me around the circuit of my practice and all that time… — John Tyler
In men this blunder still you find; all think their little set mankind. — Hannah More
Soul-the spiritual principle, the creative spark of God-cannot work if you panic. Anxiety shuts down the creative centers. When you can't think, whatever you try… — Harold Klemp
England, unlike in 1914, will not allow herself to blunder into a war lasting for years.... Such is the fate of rich countries.. .Not even… — Adolf Hitler
The greatest blunder I have seen that almost everyone makes is to just speak their mind. It doesn't make any sense. They sound like the… — Harbhajan Singh Yogi
There's a great blunder which we commit. Through communication, we try to control people...The fact is that nobody can control anybody. All you can do… — Harbhajan Singh Yogi

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