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Mistakes Quotes and Sayings
Quotes about Mistakes
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
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To err is human, to forgive divine.
- Alexander Pope
Freedom is not worth having if it
does not connote freedom to err.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
- Carl Jung
There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth
- not going all the way and not starting.
- The Buddha
Remember, there are no mistakes, only lessons.
Love yourself, trust your choices, and everything is possible.
- Cherie-Carter Scotts
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
- James Joyce
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Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth,
and if a man does not know what a thing is,
it is at least an increase in knowledge
if he knows what it is not.
- Carl Jung
I've learned that mistakes can often be
as good a teacher as success.
- Jack Welch
There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth;
not going all the way, and not starting.
- The Buddha
Achievement seems to be connected with action.
Successful men and women keep moving.
They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
- Conrad Hilton
Success seems to be connected with action.
Successful people keep moving.
They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
- Conrad Hilton
It's okay to make mistakes.
Mistakes are our teachers - they help us to learn.
- John Bradshaw
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself,
and know that everything in life has purpose.
There are no mistakes, no coincidences,
all events are blessings given to us to learn from.
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong,
who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
- Bono
I claim to be a simple individual liable
to err like any other fellow mortal.
I own, however, that I have humility enough
to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom.
It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest
might weaken and the wisest might err.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
When you find your path, you must not be afraid.
You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes.
Disappointment, defeat, and despair are
the tools God uses to show us the way.
- Paulo Coelho
I never make stupid mistakes.
Only very, very clever ones.
- John Peel
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
- Oscar Wilde
A doctor can bury his mistakes
but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Trust your own instinct.
Your mistakes might as well be your own,
instead of someone else's.
- Billy Wilder
The physician can bury his mistakes,
but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines -
so they should go as far as possible from home
to build their first buildings.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition.
The immature mind often mistakes one for the other,
or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy -
in fact, they're almost incompatible;
one emotion hardly leaves room for the other.
Both at once can produce unbearable turmoil.
- Robert Heinlein
I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure.
I make mistakes, I am out of control
and at times hard to handle.
But if you can't handle me at my worst,
then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.
- Marilyn Monroe
Mistake Quotes and Sayings
The biggest mistake we could ever make in our lives
is to think we work for anybody but ourselves.
- Brian Tracy
He who never made a mistake,
never made a discovery.
- Samuel Smiles
Anyone who has never made a mistake,
has never tried anything new.
- Albert Einstein
Guilt says I've done something wrong;
... shame says there is something wrong with me.
Guilt says I've made a mistake;
... shame says I am a mistake.
Guilt says what did was not good;
... shame says I am no good.
- John Bradshaw
Many people mistake our work for our vocation.
Our vocation is the love of Jesus.
- Mother Teresa
Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming
that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is a mistake to look too far ahead.
Only one link in the chain of destiny
can be handled at a time.
- Winston Churchill
Without music, life would be a mistake...
I would only believe in a God who knew how to dance.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
A person who never made a mistake
never tried anything new.
- Albert Einstein
Mistaken Quotes and Sayings
Self-respect is often mistaken for arrogance
when in reality it is the opposite.
When we can recognize all our good qualities
as well as or faults with neutrality,
we can start to appreciate ourselves
as we would a dear friend
and experience the comfortable inner glow of respect.
To embrace the journey towards our full potential
we need to become our own loving teacher and coach.
Spurring ourselves on to become better human beings,
we develop true regard for ourselves,
and our life will become sacred.
- Osho
Self Quotes and Sayings
Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Forgiveness is an act of self-love and respect.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland
What lies behind us and what lies before us
are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
May your life always be Counterpoint to the Clamor of the World.
May you delight in Dancing Lightly With Life.
May you soar on eagle wings, high above the madness of the world.
May you always sing Melody in the Symphony of Your Life.
May you taste, smell, and touch your dreams of a beautiful tomorrow.
May your sun always shine, and your sky be forever blue.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Listen to the compass of your heart.
All you need lies within you.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Don't live your life to please other people.
- Oprah Winfrey
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You are a magnificent gift to the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
May your life always be Counterpoint to the Clamor of the World.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
Happiness blooms
in the presence of self-respect
and the absence of ego.
Love yourself.
Love everyone around you.
Love everyone in the whole world.
Know that your own life is of infinite importance,
as is every other life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If I try to be like him, who will be like me?
- Yiddish proverb
Self-respect is not a function of size, age, or wealth.
Breathe deep, sing loud and sweet,
"I am me, I am unique, I am magnificent."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
- Joseph Campbell
Be that self which one truly is.
- Soren Kierkegaard
If a man is called to be a street sweeper,
he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted,
or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts
of heaven and earth will pause to say,
here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better
to displease the people by doing what you know is right,
than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
- William J. H. Boetcker
To thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
With realization of one's own potential and
self-confidence in one's ability,
one can build a better world.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
The greatest hazard of all, losing one's self,
can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves
and our own self-preservation,
we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
- Joseph Campbell
The best cure for our own self-inflicted suffering
is often service to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The way to develop self-confidence
is to do the thing you fear
and get a record of successful experiences behind you.
- William Jennings Bryan
One important key to success is self-confidence.
An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
- Arthur Ashe
Smile broadly, sing loudly,
paint your rooms in bold colors,
search every rabbit hole
for a magical white bunny,
have caviar for breakfast
and oatmeal for dinner,
wear a purple coat with a red hat -
dance lightly with life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You are important. You are the star -
the only star - of your own life show.
Everyone else is a bit player in the great drama of your life.
Be of service to humanity, but never be anyone's doormat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I sail the seas of life as the MASTER of my ship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Gain happiness by living in the present -
without regret for the past or fear of the future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Who sows virtue reaps honor.
- Leonardo da Vinci
No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
