The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
-Elbert Hubbard
"The Note Book"
Quotations
Mistake
Scholars, learning from their mistakes of the past, plan their present and future accordingly and enjoy success, peace and prosperity.
-Vedas "Atharva Veda"
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"
Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.
-Henry Ford
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
-George Bernard Shaw
From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.
-Publilius Syrus
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
-Oscar Wilde
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
-Edward J. Phelps
There is no greater mistake in life than seeing things or hearing them at the wrong time.
-Agatha Christie
If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.
-Edward G. Bulwer Lytton
