personal development on Mistakes

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...

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...

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...

Loving father, there are times when it feels like we never get it right. We compare ourselves to others and we don’t measure up. It seems like we can never get our act together and live up to the stan...

Prayer of Adoration Gracious God – our Father: Sufficient and sovereign, yet, compassionate and kind; You tell us the truth while the world lies to us; You give us light and hope, while all around u...

(What’s the worst good news you’ve ever received? Here are a few that come to mind for me. “Mr. Halter, this is Bill from the Ford service department. I’ve got some good news for you. All the smoke y...

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

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.

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

Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask, “Where have I gone wrong?” Then a voice says, “This is going to take more than one night.”

“I should not like to be wrong,” said Poirot. “It is not—how do you say?—my métier.”

To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

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

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

We are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right. Intellectually, it is pos...

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.

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

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

We know mistakes were made.

Once you have missed the first buttonhole you’ll never manage to button up.

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

“It is a comfort not to be mistaken at all points."

"A step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction."

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

I will look at any additional evidence to confirm the opinion to which I have already come.

Error, by force of contrast, enhances the triumph of Truth.

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

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

It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I’m right.

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