I Make Mistakes Quotes - Page 4

• We must not say that every mistake is a foolish one.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Success, Motivation, Mistake

  "De Divinatione (On Divination)". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Book II, Chapter LII, Section 90), 44 BC.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Success ... seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.

  Conrad Hilton

  Life, Motivational, Success

  97 Copy quote

• He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.

  Samuel Smiles

  Inspirational, Motivational, Smile

  1859 Self-Help, ch.11.

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Success, Time

  86 Copy quote

• The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Change, Positive

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.7, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

  36 Copy quote

  Show source

• I make mistakes; I'll be the second to admit it.

  Jean Kerr

  Mistake, Women, Making Mistakes

  Jean Kerr (1960). “The Snake Has All the Lines”

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• I know that being seen as a role model means taking responsibility for all my actions. I am human, and of course, sometimes I make mistakes. But I promise that when I fall, I get back up.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Mistake, Fall, Responsibility

  "Jennifer Lopez Is Our October Cover Girl!". Interview with Jancee Dunn, www.cosmopolitan.com. September 3, 2013.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• You can only go forward by making mistakes.

  Alexander McQueen

  Mistake, Making Mistakes

  "Boy done good" by Jess Cartner-Morley, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 11, 2010.

  35 Copy quote

  Show source

• Your best teacher is your last mistake.

  Ralph Nader

  Success, Teacher, Retirement

  27 Copy quote

• If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum.

  Holly Near

  Motivational, Wisdom, Mistake

  25 Copy quote

• We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

  14 Copy quote

• Punishing honest mistakes stifles creativity. I want people moving and shaking the earth and they're going to make mistakes.

  Ross Perot

  Mistake, Moving, Creativity

  30 Copy quote

• To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

  Plutarch

  Wise, Mistake, Character

  73 Copy quote

• It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Change, Positive

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses”, p.2, Courier Corporation

  33 Copy quote

  Show source

• This much we know: Journalism is not a precise science. It's, on its best day, is a crude art. We make mistakes; I make mistakes. With more than 50 years as a journalist, I have at least had the opportunity to blow more stories, make more mistakes than maybe anybody in television.

  Dan Rather

  Art, Mistake, Blow

  "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. June 2, 2005.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I make mistakes. That's what I do. I speak without thinking, I act without knowing. I drink so much that I can barely walk...I'm a fantastic lover though, and an amazing friend. God knows I mean well.

  Candace Bushnell

  Mistake, Mean, Thinking

  6 Copy quote

• Even I make mistakes." I put on my brash, overconfident face. "I know it's hard to believe—kind of surprises me myself—but I guess it has to happen. It's probably some kind of karmic way to balance out the universe. Otherwise, it wouldn't be fair to have one person so full of awesomeness.

  Richelle Mead

  Mistake, Believe, Balance

  Richelle Mead (2008). “Shadow Kiss: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.46, Penguin

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• There are no mistakes, no coincidences; all events are blessings given to us to learn from.

  Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Life, Thank You, Spiritual

  "Elisabeth Kubler-Ross: Messenger of Love" by Lennie Kronisch in Yoga Journal, Issue 11 (pp. 18-20), November/December 1976.

  43 Copy quote

  Show source

• I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.

  Neil Gaiman

  New Year, Mistake, Years

  11 Copy quote

• Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Success, Motivation

  Confucius, Mencius, 左丘明 (1971). “The Chinese classics with a translation, critical and exegetical notes: prolegomena and copious indexes”

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• So that's my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made before. Don't freeze, don't stop, don't worry that it isn't good enough, or it isn't perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life.

  Neil Gaiman

  New Year, Art, Mistake

  "My New Year Wish" by Neil Gaiman, journal.neilgaiman.com. December 31, 2011.

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.

  Phil Knight

  Inspirational, Business, Mistake

  28 Copy quote

• When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Life, Karma

  46 Copy quote

• Smart people learn from their mistakes. But the real sharp ones learn from the mistakes of others.

  Brandon Mull

  Leadership, Real, Mistake

  Brandon Mull, Brandon Dorman (2007). “Fablehaven”, p.152, Simon and Schuster

  45 Copy quote

  Show source

• I make mistakes, but I am on the side of Good," the Golux said, "by accident and happenchance. I had high hopes of being Evil when I was two, but in my youth I came upon a firefly burning in a spider's web. I saved the victim's life." "The firefly's ?" said the minstrel. "The spider's. The blinking arsonist had set the web on fire.

  James Thurber

  Mistake, Firefly, Two

  9 Copy quote