Mistake Quotes - Page 19

• By and large, I seem to have made more mistakes than any others of whom I know, but have learned thereby to make ever swifter acknowledgment of the errors and thereafter immediately set about to deal more effectively with the truths disclosed by the acknowledgment of erroneous assumptions.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Truth, Errors, Assumption

  R. Buckminster Fuller (1982). “Critical Path”, p.363, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• Who can mistake great thoughts? They seize upon the mind; arrest and search, And shake it; bow the tall soul as by wind; Rush over it like a river reeds.

  Philip James Bailey

  Wind, Rivers, Soul

  Philip James Bailey (1845). “Festus: A Poem”, p.139

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• Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists - talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Expression, Description, Talkers

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2580, Delphi Classics

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• Make no mistake; the American Revolution was not fought to obtain freedom, but to preserve the liberties that Americans already had as colonials. Independence was no conscious goal, secretly nurtured in cellar or jungle by bearded conspirators, but a reluctant last resort, to preserve "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."

  Samuel Eliot Morison

  Life, Pursuit Of Happiness, Goal

  Samuel Eliot Morison (1972). “The Oxford history of the American people”, Signet

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• In 27 years of reporting from Washington, I've never heard a President admit he made a mistake.

  Sam Donaldson

  Years, President, Made

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• Too much pessimism has led too many men into making serious mistakes. And perhaps part of our pessimism comes because we are too close to ourselves to see in proper perspective.

  Richard L. Evans

  Men, Perspective, Too Much

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• Ah, pray no mistake, We are not shy; We're very wide awake The Moon and I.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Moon, Shy, Praying

  Sir W. S. Gilbert (1929). “The Mikado and other Operas”

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• A man and his wife, each in a different small plane, were out enjoying a flight, when the husband committed a flight error. He was able to recover, but his wife who was following him, crashed and was killed. The husband was distraught, blaming himself for the accident. One day when pleading with the Lord for forgiveness, he heard a voice saying "Jesus died, even for dumb mistakes."

  Truman G. Madsen

  Jesus, Husband, Men

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• Parents - and teachers too - are woefully short-sighted when they try to protect the child from his mistakes, when they make the "right answer" more important than the quest for knowledge and good judgment. For what is not learned within one's self cannot be learned from another.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Teacher, Children, Self

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• I will not quarrel with a slight mistake, Such as our nature's frailty may excuse.

  Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

  May, Excuse, Quarrels

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• The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.

  Walter Bagehot

  Trying, Belief

  Walter Bagehot (1968). “The Collected Works of Walter Bagehot: The historical essays. v. 5-8. Political essays”

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• If I made a mistake in singing a song or in the script, I could have some fun with it, then retain any of the fun that sounded amusing.

  Bing Crosby

  Song, Fun, Singing

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• I mean, you know, this idea that somebody we disagree with on economic or social policy or something we have to turn into some kind of ogre or demon, I think, is a mistake. I mean, it's like telling the American people or half the American people that don't agree with you they're all fools. That's just not true.

  William J. Clinton

  Mean, Thinking, Ideas

  "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. June 1, 2005.

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• Take the stupidest thing you've ever done. At least it's done. It's over. It's gone. We can all learn from our mistakes and heal and move on. But it's harder to learn or heal or move on from something that hasn't happened; something we don't know and is therefore indefinable; something which could very easily have been the best thing in our lives, if only we'd taken the plunge, if only we'd held our breath and stood up and done it, if only we'd said yes.

  Danny Wallace

  Regret, Moving, Taken

  Danny Wallace (2010). “Yes Man”, p.433, Simon and Schuster

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• If you are afraid to take a chance, take one anyway. What you don't do can create the same regrets as the mistakes you make.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Regret, Fear, Chance

  Twitter post from Sep 30, 2016

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• When life does not go our way or we inadvertently make a mistake, it is so easy to make excuses, place blame on others, or argue that circumstances were against us. But we only progress in life to the extent that we take responsibility for our actions and attitudes, and put forth the initiative necessary to create our own circumstances.

  Stephen Covey

  Attitude, Freedom, Responsibility

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• When Theodore Roosevelt was in the White House, he confessed that if he could be right 75 percent of the time, he would reach the highest measure of his expectation. . . . If that was the highest rating that one of the most distinguished men of the twentieth century could hope to obtain, what about you and me?

  Dale Carnegie

  Men, White, Expectations

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to win friends & influence people”, p.106, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• Even Johannes Kepler, Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Gregor Mendel, and Albert Einstein made serious mistakes. But the scientific enterprise arranges things so that teamwork prevails: What one of us, even the most brilliant among us, misses, another of us, even someone much less celebrated and capable, may detect and rectify.

  Carl Sagan

  Teamwork, Missing, Kepler

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• We all take leave of our senses, from time to time. . . . .

  Bryan A. Garner

  Senses

  Bryan A. Garner (2011). “Garner's Dictionary of Legal Usage”, p.425, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The proactive approach to a mistake is to acknowledge it instantly, correct and learn from it. This literally turns a failure into a success.

  Stephen Covey

  Proactive, Turns, Approach

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.107, Mango Media Inc.

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• To the wise man, to the wise nation, the mistakes of the past are the torches of the present.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Life, Wise, Past

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.3259, Library of Alexandria

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• I am grateful to learn from their mistakes, because I am not injecting s- into my face. I see them and my heart breaks. I think, 'Oh God, if you only know how much older you look.' They are trying to stop the clock and all you can see is an insecure person who won't let themselves just age. I also have a fiancé who will put a gun to my head if I touch my face in any way.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Grateful, Heart, Insecure

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• Let's face it, we're not about to earn our way to wealth. That's a mistake millions of Americans make. We think that if we work harder, smarter, longer, we'll achieve our financial dreams, but our paycheck alone-no matter how big-isn't the answer.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Dream, Money

  Tony Robbins (2014). “MONEY Master the Game: 7 Simple Steps to Financial Freedom”, p.49, Simon and Schuster

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• Regard mistakes as teachers, not judges!

  Tae Yun Kim

  Teacher, Judging, Regard

  Tae Yun Kim (1994). “The Silent Master: Awakening the Power Within”

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• Falling for him would be like cliff diving. It would be either the most exhilarating thing that ever happened to me or the stupidest mistake I'd ever make.

  Colleen Houck

  Falling In Love, Romance, Cliffs

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