Quotes about mistakes

Nothing is too small. I counsel you, put down in record even your doubts and surmises. Hereafter it may be of interest to you to see how true you guess. We learn from failure, not from success!

A network nurtures small failures in order that large failures don't happen as often.

To err is human; to manage error is system.

And now, just to prove how clever the elected rulers of the country were, they’d decided to reprise what hadn’t worked before.

I am more afraid of our own blunders than of the enemy's devices.

It is a common mistake in going to war to begin at the wrong end, to act first, and wait for disaster to discuss the matter.

It takes a strong man to turn back from a bad choice.

We had what we thought was the answer and we troubled to look no further.

For the world to follow, we must do more than rattle our sabers and demand allegienace to our vision simply because we believe we are right. We must provide a reason for others to aspire to that vision. And that reason must come with more than the repetition of a bumper-sticker phrase about freedom and democracy. It must come with more than the restatement of failed policy. It must come with the wisdom to admit when we are wrong and resolve to change course and get it right.

"[W]e're so trained to do life the right way. To not make mistakes" Brandy says, "I figure, the bigger the mistake looks, the better chance I'll have to break out and live a real life."

In all of history, we have found just one cure for error—a partial antidote against making and repeating grand, foolish mistakes, a remedy against self-deception. That antidote is criticism.

You must never feel badly about making mistakes, as long as you learn from them.