A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
-George Bernard Shaw
Quotations
Mistake
Some of us learn from other people’s mistakes and the rest of us have to be other people.
-Zig Ziglar
I suppose that’s one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.
-Charlie Chaplin
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"
How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.
-Benjamin Franklin
From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.
-Publilius Syrus
No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.
-François De La Rochefoucauld
Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
A human being is absolutely independent; therefore whatever happens to him
is completely his own responsibility. The one who holds others responsible,
repeatedly commits the same mistakes again and again.
-Deep Trivedi
I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes.
-Jimi Hendrix
