Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.
—Benjamin Disraeli
Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.
—Cato the Elder
We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
—Cicero
Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.
—Confucius
We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.
—Dan Quayle
Assert your right to make a few mistakes. If people can't accept your imperfections, that's their fault.
—Dr. David M. Burns
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
—Elbert Hubbard
It's always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile.
—Garry Marshall
While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.
—Henry C. Link
She had an unequalled gift… of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
—Henry James
When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
—Hugh White
I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
—Igor Stravinsky
Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
—J. Robert Oppenheimer
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
—Mahatma Gandhi
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
—Marie Curie