The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
-John Powell
Quotations
Mistake
Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"
If people refuse to look at you in a new light and they can only see you for what you were, only see you for the mistakes you've made, if they don't realize that you are not your mistakes, then they have to go.
-Steve Maraboli
"Life, the Truth, and Being Free"
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field.
-Niels Bohr
Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.
-Sophia Loren
How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.
-Benjamin Franklin
Scholars, learning from their mistakes of the past, plan their present and future accordingly and enjoy success, peace and prosperity.
-Vedas "Atharva Veda"
Making a different mistake every day is not only acceptable, it is the definition of progress.
-Robert Brault
I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes.
-Jimi Hendrix
