I suppose that’s one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.
-Charlie Chaplin
Quotations
Mistake
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"
Making a different mistake every day is not only acceptable, it is the definition of progress.
-Robert Brault
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
-Edward J. Phelps
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
-George Bernard Shaw
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
-Oscar Wilde
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
Some of us learn from other people’s mistakes and the rest of us have to be other people.
-Zig Ziglar
If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.
-Edward G. Bulwer Lytton
