Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.
-Henry Ford
Quotations
Mistake
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
-George Bernard Shaw
How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.
-Benjamin Franklin
Nothing is easier than fault-finding.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
-George Bernard Shaw
Unless I accept my faults I will most certainly doubt my virtues.
-Hugh Prather
No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.
-François De La Rochefoucauld
Some of us learn from other people’s mistakes and the rest of us have to be other people.
-Zig Ziglar
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
-Elbert Hubbard
"The Note Book"
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.
-Alexander Pope
"Swift: Miscellanies"
