The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. – Elbert Hubbard, The Note Book, 1927
Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life. – Sophia Loren
It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something. – Ornette Coleman
I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones. – John Peel
Never say, “oops.” Always say, “Ah, interesting.” – Author Unknown
While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior. – Henry C. Link
A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying… that he is wiser today than he was yesterday. – Alexander Pope, in Swift, Miscellanies
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing. – John Powell
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything. – Edward Phelps
Making mistakes simply means you are learning faster. – Weston H. Agor
Doing one fool thing after another is not so terrible when you consider the human proclivity to do several fool things at once. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
If a mistake is not a stepping stone, it is a mistake. – Eli Siegel
One cannot too soon forget his errors and misdemeanors; for to dwell upon them is to add to the offense. – Henry David Thoreau
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm. – Colette
Unto those Three Things which the Ancients held impossible, there should be added this Fourth, to find a Book Printed without erratas. – Alfonso de Cartagena
Our blunders mostly come from letting our wishes interpret our duties. – Author Unknown
When we make mistakes they call it evil. When God makes mistakes they call it Nature! – Jack Nicholson in The Witches of Eastwick
Mistakes fail in their mission of helping the person who blames them on the other fellow. – Henry S. Haskins
Error is a hardy plant; it flourishes in every soil. – Martin F. Tupper
Making a different mistake every day is not only acceptable, it is the definition of progress. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
