Blunders Quote by George Washington Download Open image “To rectify past blunders is impossible, but we might profit by the experience of them.” — George Washington ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Blunders Experience Impossible Might Past Profit Rectify
You must make your own blunders, must cheerfully accept your own mistakes as part of the scheme of things. — Minnie Maddern Fiske Copy Share Image
We must learn to give ourselves permission to blunder, to fail, and to make fools of ourselves every day for the rest of our… — Sheldon B. Kopp Copy Share Image
It seems that the necessary thing to do is not to fear mistakes, to plunge in, to do the best that one can, hoping… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A blunder at the right moment is better than cleverness at the wrong time. — Carolyn Wells Copy Share Image
We ought not to look back, unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors and for the purpose of profiting by dear… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Every blunder behind us is giving a cheer for us, and only for those who were willing to fail are the dangers and splendors… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
For historians, hindsight can be a treacherous ally. Enabling us to trace the hidden patterns of past events, it beguiles us with the mirage… — Eric Foner Copy Share Image
We approach markets backwards. The first thing we ask is not what can we make, but how much can we lose. We play a… — Larry Hite Copy Share Image
We ought not to look back, unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dear… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness. — A. J. P. Taylor Copy Share Image
It is much easier at all times to prevent an evil than to rectify mistakes. — George Washington Copy Share Image
It is absolutely necessary... for me to have persons that can think for me, as well as execute orders. — George Washington Copy Share Image
The turning points of lives are not the great moments. The real crises are often concealed in occurrences so trivial in appearance that they… — George Washington Copy Share Image
The propitious smiles of Heaven, can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right, which Heaven itself… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Interwoven as is the love of liberty with every ligament of your hearts, no recommendation of mine is necessary to fortify or confirm the… — George Washington Copy Share Image
In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism who should labor to subvert these great pillars. — George Washington Copy Share Image
The blessed Religion revealed in the word of God will remain an eternal and awful monument to prove that the best Institution may be… — George Washington Copy Share Image
While we are contending for our own liberty, we should be very cautious not to violate the conscience of others, ever considering that God… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Among many other weighty objections to the Measure, it has been suggested, that it has a tendency to introduce religious disputes into the Army,… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Democratical States must always feel before they can see: it is this that makes their Governments slow, but the people will be right at… — George Washington Copy Share Image
If, in the opinion of the people, the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected… — George Washington Copy Share Image
A man's intentions should be allowed in some respects to plead for his actions. — George Washington Copy Share Image
Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibres. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
We must not judge God from this world. It's just a study that didn't come off. It's only a master who could make such… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
Books are masters who instruct us without rods or ferules, without words or anger, without bread or money. If you approach them, they are… — Richard de Bury Copy Share Image
If only,’ Shiroyama dreams, ‘human beings were not masks behind masks behind masks. If only this world was a clean board of lines and… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Your printers have made but one blunder,Correct it instanter, and then for the thunder!We'll see in a jiffy if this Mr S[pencer]Has the ghost… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nature proceeds by blunders; that is its way. It is also ours. So if we have blundered by regarding consciousness as a blunder, why… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
George theThird Ought never to have occurred. One can only wonder At so grotesque a blunder. — E. C. Bentley Copy Share Image
I take editing seriously. It's a joy to edit. I always hand a manuscript to several editors and can't wait to get back their… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
The pain others give passes away in their later kindness, but that of our own blunders, especially when they hurt our vanity, never passes… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image