personal development on Mistakes

Mistakes were quite possibly made by the administrations in which I served.

We know mistakes were made.

Mistakes were made in communicating to the public and customers about the ingredients in our French fries and hash browns.

“My mistakes are my life.” How It Is

All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.

“A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.”

I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.

All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

Perhaps the history of the errors of mankind, all things considered, is more valuable and interesting than that of their discoveries. Truth is uniform and narrow; it constantly exists, and does not se...

If a mistake is not a stepping stone, it is a mistake.

The point of discourse is to learn with and from one another. I used to tell my students that at least 20 percent of what I was telling them was wrong, but I didn't know which 20 percent it was: I...

The point of discourse is to learn with and from one another. I used to tell my students that at least 20 percent of what I was telling them was wrong, but I didn't know which 20 percent it was: I...

Pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

“If one wants to be active, one mustn’t be afraid to do something wrong sometimes, not afraid to lapse into some mistakes. To be good — many people think that they’ll achieve it by doing no harm — and...

“Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?”

You want to cry aloud for your mistakes. But to tell the truth the world doesn't need any more of that sound.

Gracious God, sometimes I think that I can figure out all the consequences of my decisions. I can become overly impressed with what I perceive to be my strategic vision and analysis. Forgive me for my...

Postmodernism (the thinking of our age) is fiercely antinomian (without law). It is admitted that people make mistakes, but the word ‘sin’ is seldom mentioned and the idea that we all sin against God ...

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field.

Help me, I pray, to be someone who tells the truth, even when that truth has to do with my mistakes, my sins. Help me see myself and my actions clearly. Give me the courage to admit when I’ve done wro...

Many years ago a senior executive of the then Standard Oil Company made a wrong decision that cost the company more than $2 million. John D. Rockefeller was then running the firm. On the day the news ...

To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive ner...

There is something to be said for every error; but, whatever may be said for it, the most important thing to be said about it is that it is erroneous.

I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn’t explain away afterwards.

To err isn’t human after all. To err is, cosmically speaking, an anomaly. That’s why we can’t bear the imperfection in ourselves and in others.

It is human to err, it is devilish to remain willfully in error.

When you repeat a mistake, it is not a mistake anymore: it is a decision.