Mistakes Quotes

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Mistakes are their own instructors — Horace
Thinking you know when in fact you don't is a fatal mistake, to which we are all prone — Bertrand Russell
Everybody's human-everybody makes mistakes. If you laugh it off and keep going and try to give it your best the next time around, people respect… — Benjamin Franklin
Falsehood falsehood cures — William Shakespeare
You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren't. You take the action, and the insight follows: You don't think your way into… — Anne Lamott
God is action, complete with mistakes, fumblings, persistence, agony. God is not the power that has found eternal equilibrium, but the power that is forever… — Nikos Kazantzakis
...wisdom is in large part the knowledge of how to avoid doing dumb things, and thus grows globally as a function of the published inventory… — Tim Bray
My philosophy is that it's better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe and not to explore at all. — Sophia Loren
The cross is bigger than your mistakes, bigger than your regrets, bigger than the secrets you hold. The cross stands above it all. — Nicky Gumbel
Chess holds deep wisdoms of the people. It is truly an image of life, the reflection of human fate that has shown us the earthly… — Pope John Paul II
You can become a big master in chess only if you see your mistakes and short-comings. Exactly the same as in life itself. — Alexander Alekhine
Heaven knows, we all make mistakes. That's life - and chess. — Woody Allen
It is better to make a mistake with full force of your being than to carefully avoid mistakes with a trembling spirit. — Socrates
Sometimes mistakes are the best thing that can happen, because they might lift you...out of your complacency, and open your mind up to a whole… — Bobby McFerrin
The banking business is no favorite of ours. When assets are twenty times equity - a common ratio in this industry - mistakes that involve… — Warren Buffett
[During difficult times and after mistakes and failures it is helpful to remember ...] Oftentimes calamity turns to our advantage and great ruins make way… — Seneca the Younger
One of the things that defines our character is how we handle mistakes. — Terry Goodkind
This book has been a catalogue of mistakes by politicians, moral and practical disasters which led to wars, enslavement and wretchedness on a scale which… — A. N. Wilson
Above all, children need our unconditional love, whether they succeed or make mistakes; when life is easy and when life is tough. — Barack Obama
I like them all - I don't always approve. I see myself as a sort of benevolent uncle to these characters, and I can see… — Patrick Marber
Generally speaking, there are two kinds of learning: experience, which is gained from your own mistakes, and wisdom, which is learned from the mistakes of… — John C. Maxwell
People who don't make mistakes are no bloody good to you at all. — John Harvey-Jones
When I left HEEP I didn't know what I wanted! It took me a long time to adjust to life away from the band and… — Ken Hensley
Tell everyone that your mistakes are art. You can get away with a lot that way. — Robert Rodriguez
I left Gorbachev's office thinking that everything about him was outsized: his achievements, his mistakes, and, now, his vanity and bitterness. — David Remnick

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