Mistakes

If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.

If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.

You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.

Sidonie Gabrielle Collette

If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.

If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.

You've made mistakes in the past, you will probably make more in future, and that is okay.

You've made mistakes in the past, you will probably make more in future, and that is okay.

Learn from the mistakes of others... you can't live long enough to make them all yourselves.

Learn from the mistakes of others... you can't live long enough to make them all yourselves.

There should be no shame in admitting to a mistake; after all, we really are only admitting that we are now wiser than we once were.

There should be no shame in admitting to a mistake; after all, we really are only admitting that we are now wiser than we once were.

Better to jump and make a mistake than sit there too frightened to make a move.

Better to jump and make a mistake than sit there too frightened to make a move.

Richard Templar

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience - well, that comes from poor judgment.

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience - well, that comes from poor judgment.

Alan Alexander Milne

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

George Bernard Shaw

He that does amiss never lacks excuses.

He that does amiss never lacks excuses.

Italian proverbs

Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance.

Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance.

A donkey does not stumble twice over the same stone.

A donkey does not stumble twice over the same stone.

French proverbs

Experience is knowing a lot of things you shouldn't do.

Experience is knowing a lot of things you shouldn't do.

William Knudsen

Lord, deliver me from the man who never makes a mistake, and also from the man who makes the same mistake twice.

Lord, deliver me from the man who never makes a mistake, and also from the man who makes the same mistake twice.

William J. Mayo

Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

He that is a donkey, and believes himself a deer, finds out his mistake at the leaping of the ditch.

He that is a donkey, and believes himself a deer, finds out his mistake at the leaping of the ditch.

Italian proverbs

A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.