Quotes about Mistakes
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"Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself."
-Eleanor Roosevelt
-Eleanor Roosevelt
"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."
-George Bernard Shaw
-George Bernard Shaw
"Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?"
-Peter McWilliams
-Peter McWilliams
"To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all."
-Peter McWilliams
-Peter McWilliams
"The mistakes made by Congress wouldn't be so bad if the next Congress didn't keep trying to correct them."
-Cullen Hightower
-Cullen Hightower
"If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down."
-Mary Pickford
-Mary Pickford
"If you have to make mistakes, make them good and big, don't be middling if you can help it."
-Hildegard Knef
-Hildegard Knef
"The most ominous of fallacies - the belief that things can be kept static by inaction."
-Freya Stark
-Freya Stark
"Intelligent or not, we all make mistakes and perhaps the intelligent mistakes are the worst, because so much careful thought has gone into them."
-Peter Ustinov
-Peter Ustinov
"Our mistake, you see, was to write interminable large operas, which had to fill an entire evening. And now along comes someone with a one or two-act opera without all that pompous nonsense - that was a happy reform."
-Giuseppe Verdi
-Giuseppe Verdi
"We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made."
-Dan Quayle
-Dan Quayle
"The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one."
-Elbert Hubbard
-Elbert Hubbard
"Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise."
-Cato the Elder
-Cato the Elder
"No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar."
-Donald Foster
-Donald Foster
"As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes."
-Mel Brooks
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