
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.Oscar Wilde
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Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.Oscar Wilde

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.James Joyce

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.Bruce Lee

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.George Bernard Shaw
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing.George Bernard Shaw
Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won't have time to make them all yourself.Alfred Sheinwold
It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little — do what you can.Sydney Smith
It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit to forgive them for having witnessed your own.Jessamyn West
He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.Tryon Edwards
There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.Gautama Buddha
Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone elses.Billy Wilder
Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.Thomas Carlyle
The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes than he who distrusts them.Cavour
I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.Edna Millay
The only person who never makes mistakes is the person who never does anything.Denis Waitley
To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.Plutarch
If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose.Mary Pickford
Strong people make as many mistakes as weak people. Difference is that strong people admit their mistakes, laugh at them, learn from them. That is how they become strong.Richard Needham
Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.Jules Verne
I made mistakes and I paid for them, but the ball is never stained.Diego Maradona
I am Maradona, who makes goals, who makes mistakes. I can take it all, I have shoulders big enough to fight with everybody.Diego Maradona
Things won't go perfect. It's all about how you adapt from those things and learn from mistakes.Michael Phelps

It isn't always easy to apologize for your mistakes but doing so shows a person with a strong sense of self.Byron Pulsifer

All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.Sophocles

We don't make mistakes, just happy little accidents.Bob Ross

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.Carl Jung