Mistake Quotes - Page 34

• The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Fall, Men, Failing

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• The greatest blunders, like the thickest ropes, are often compounded of a multitude of strands. Take the rope apart, separate it into the small threads that compose it, and you can break them one by one. You think, That is all there was! But twist them all together and you have something tremendous.

  Victor Hugo

  Thinking, Together, Twists

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• There is no original truth, only original error.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Truth, Errors, Originals

  "Fragments of a Poetics of Fire (A Retrospective Glance at the Lifework of a Master of Books)". Book by Gaston Bachelard edited by Suzanne Bachelard, 1988.

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• Life would be dull without them.

  Oscar Wilde

  Would Be, Dull

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• The broadest and most prevalent error requires the most disinterested virtue to sustain it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Errors, Virtue, Disinterested

  Henry David Thoreau (1942). “Civil Disobedience”, p.8, Hayes Barton Press

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• No man is beaten until his hope is annihilated, his confidence gone, As long as a man faces life hopefully, confidently, triumphantly, he is not a failure; he is not beaten until he turns his back on life.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Life, Men, Long

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• What a waste my life would be without all the beautiful mistakes I've made.

  Alice Bag

  Beautiful, Would Be, Waste

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• I've made every mistake - but mistakes are how you learn.

  Tony Benn

  Making Mistakes, Made

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• So fear helps me from making mistakes, but I make lot of mistakes.

  Steve Irwin

  Helping, Help Me, Crocodiles

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• Life isn't about algebra and geometry. Learning by making mistakes and not duplicating them is what life is about.

  Lindsay Fox

  Life Is, Algebra, Geometry

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• Sometimes... I think parents work so hard to keep us from making their mistakes, they won't allow us to make our own.

  Charles Sheehan-Miles

  Thinking, Parent, Sometimes

  Charles Sheehan-Miles (2012). “A Song for Julia”, p.158, Cincinnatus Press

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• Base yourself in loyalty and trust. Don't be companion with those who are not your moral equal. When you make a mistake, don't hesitate to correct it.

  Confucius

  Loyalty, Spiritual, Moral

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• Too often, our minds are so burdened because of the mistakes we have made that we do not take the time to forgive ourselves and others and start over again.

  Ernest Holmes

  Forgiveness, Starting Over, Forgiving

  Ernest Holmes (2007). “365 Science of Mind: A Year of Daily Wisdom from Ernest Holmes”, p.102, Penguin

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• Forgiving is tough. Excusing is easy. What a mistake it is to confuse forgiving with being mushy, soft, gutless, and oh, so understanding. Before we forgive, we stiffen our spine and we hold a person accountable. And only then, in tough-minded judgment, can we do the outrageously impossible thing: we can forgive.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Impossible Things, Understanding, Forgiving

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• To put yourself into a situation where a mistake cannot necessarily be recouped, where the life you lose may be your own, clears the head wonderfully. It puts domestic problems back into proportion and adds an element of seriousness to your drab, routine life. Perhaps this is one reason why climbing has become increasingly hard as society has become increasingly, disproportionately, coddling.

  Al Alvarez

  Climbing, Routine Life, Hiking

  "Our enduring desire to court deadly risk" by Peter Beaumont, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2012.

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• You make mistakes as a parent. Then you wish you hadn't said that, or you wish you hadn't told them how to dress. You cringe.

  Jennifer Connelly

  Motherhood, Parent, Touching

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• The biggest mistake to me is complacency.

  Bonnie Hammer

  Complacency, Biggest Mistake

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• We ask for happiness but what we get is unhappiness. We all put our efforts into trying to be happy but we make a fundamental mistake: happiness is not related to the effort, happiness is related to not asking for it.

  Rajneesh

  Happiness, Effort, Trying

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• Some critics will say Coca-Cola made a marketing mistake. Some cynics will say that we planned the whole thing. The truth is we are not that dumb, and we are not that smart.

  Donald Keough

  Smart, America, Dumb

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• If I'd been born in my grandfather's time, I'd have made my grandfather's mistakes. Theres no doubt of it. I just don't want to make my grandfather's mistakes today.

  Frank Herbert

  Life, Advice, Doubt

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• People who get married because they're in love make a ridiculous mistake. It makes much more sense to marry your best friend. You like your best friend more than anyone you're ever going to be in love with. You dont choose your best friend because they have a cute nose.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Cute, Love You, People

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• I'm an incredibly lucky girl. For someone who has made some very foolish mistakes and had some tough lessons to learn very quickly, I am still incredibly lucky.

  Monica Lewinsky

  Girl, Stupid, Lucky

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• Have faith in man, whether he appears to you to be a very learned one or a most ignorant one. Have faith in man, whether he appears to be an angel or the very devil himself. Have faith in man first, and then having faith in him, believe that if there are defects in him, if he makes mistakes, if he embraces the crudest and the vilest doctrines, believe that it is not from his real nature that they come, but from the want of higher ideals.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Faith, Real, Believe

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1284, Manonmani Publishers

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• The perosn who doesn't make mistakes is unlikely to make anything.

  Paul Arden

  Making Mistakes, Unlikely

  "How Good Do You Want to Be?" by Max Benavidez, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 18, 2014.

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• Winning coaches must treat mistakes like copperheads in the bedclothes - avoid them with all the energy you can muster.

  Darrell Royal

  Winning, Energy, Treats

  Darrell Royal, Blackie Sherrod (1963). “Darrell Royal Talks Football”

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