“In order to succeed, you must fail so that you know what not to do the next time.”
— Anthony J. D'Angelo
Read More“Mistakes are always forgivable if one has the courage to admit them.”
— Bruce Lee
Read More“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”
— Albert Einstein
Read More“I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.”
— Leonardo da Vinci
Read More“I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice and then going away and doing the exact opposite.”
— G. K. Chesterton
Read More“Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.”
— Ansel Adams
Read More“If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.”
— Quentin Crisp
Read More“Vanity, working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.”
— Jane Austen
Read More“The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.”
— Elbert Hubbard
Read More“You gotta lose 'em some of the time. When you do lose 'em, lose 'em right.”
— Casey Stengel
Read More“If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.”
— W.C. Fields
Read More“It takes less time to do a thing right than it does to explain why you did it wrong.”
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Read More“Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.”
— Oscar Wilde
Read More“You win some, you lose some, and you wreck some.”
— Dale Earnhardt
Read More“Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.”
— Ambrose Bierce
Read More“Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.”
— Aesop
Read More“We are all of us failures; at least the best of us are.”
— James M. Barrie
Read More“My fault, my failure is not in the passions I have but in my lack of control of them.”
— Jack Kerouac
Read More“If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.”
— John Wooden
Read More“Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.”
— Edward de Bono
Read More“Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident because when you get overconfident that's when something snaps up and bites you.”
— Neil Armstrong
Read More“It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.”
— H. P. Lovecraft
Read More“It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.”
— Douglas Adams
Read More“Every man has his follies, and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.”
— Josh Billings
Read More“Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly and get on with improving your other innovations.”
— Steve Jobs
Read More“A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.”
— Douglas Adams
Read More“It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.”
— Nikolai Gogol
Read More“Success does not consist in never making mistakes, but in never making the same one a second time.”
— George Bernard Shaw
Read More“Man is the only kind of varmint that sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.”
— John Steinbeck
Read More“Failure is always an option.”
— Adam Savage
Read More“The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.”
— Meister Eckhart
Read More“Failures are not a bad thing; it builds character, it makes you stronger.”
— Billie Dee Williams
Read More“I poured spot remover on my dog. Now he's gone.”
— Steven Wright
Read More“I bought some batteries, but they weren't included.”
— Steven Wright
Read More“Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.”
— Ernest Hemingway
Read More“No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.”
— Mary Wollstonecraft
Read More“Remember that failure is an event, not a person.”
— Zig Ziglar
Read More“If I know I make this much trouble, I never climb Everest.”
— Tenzing Norgay
Read More“Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.”
— Les Brown
Read More“Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes.”
— Antisthenes
Read More“Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake, we must not interrupt him too soon.”
— Horatio Nelson
Read More“A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.”
— Samuel Johnson
Read More“A poet can survive everything but a misprint.”
— Oscar Wilde
Read More“Everyone has the right to be stupid on occasion, but Comrade MacDonald abuses the privilege.”
— Leon Trotsky
Read More“I aimed at the Archduke; I do not remember what I thought at that moment.”
— Gavrilo Princip
Read More“The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.”
— Dale Carnegie
Read More“The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.”
— Voltaire
Read More“Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.”
— Samuel Johnson
Read More“I made my money by selling too soon.”
— Bernard Baruch
Read More“The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.”
— Sophocles
Read More“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”
— George Bernard Shaw
Read More“I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man.”
— Alexander Hamilton
Read More“My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them.”
— Mitch Hedberg
Read More“To err is human, but to really foul up requires a computer.”
— Dan Rather
Read More“Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.”
— Isaac Newton
Read More“Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance.”
— Pythagoras
Read More“All men are liable to error, and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.”
— John Locke
Read More“A poet can survive everything but a misprint.”
— Oscar Wilde
Read More“A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.”
— Albert Einstein
Read More“Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.”
— Edmund Burke
Read More“The cautious seldom err.”
— Confucius
Read More“If two wrongs don't make a right, try three.”
— Laurence J. Peter
Read More“I don't think it's an incredibly radical premise to try and have sympathy for someone who has made a mistake.”
— Joe Cornish
Read More“The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.”
— Theodore Roosevelt
Read More“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Read More“Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.”
— Mark Twain
Read More“A failure is not always a mistake; it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.”
— B.F. Skinner
Read More“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”
— George Bernard Shaw
Read More“A girl phoned me the other day and said, 'Come on over, there's nobody home.' I went over, nobody was home.”
— Rodney Dangerfield
Read More“If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.”
— Theodore Roosevelt
Read More“A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable, and always unacceptable.”
— Robert Fripp
Read More“My failures have been errors in judgment, not of intent.”
— Ulysses S. Grant
Read More“Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.”
— Mark Twain
Read More“A well-adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.”
— Alexander Hamilton
Read More“Speak when you are angry and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.”
— Laurence J. Peter
Read More“If at first you don't succeed, so much for skydiving.”
— Henny Youngman
Read More“It is always a mistake to be plain spoken.”
— Gertrude Stein
Read More“Fear is stupid. So are regrets.”
— Marilyn Monroe
Read More“If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.”
— Tallulah Bankhead
Read More“Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.”
— Voltaire
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