"We all want progress. But progress means getting nearer to the place where you want to be. And if you have taken a wrong turning, then to go forward does not get you any nearer." C. S. Lewis

"If you are on the wrong road, progress means doing an about turn and walking back to the right road; and in that case the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive man." C. S. Lewis

"Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied." Pearl S. Buck

"Half our mistakes in life arise from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel." John Churton Collins

"Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good." Bertolt Brecht

"He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year." Leonardo da Vinci

"Tomorrow is a fresh day with no mistakes in it." unknown

"There is no mistake so great as that of being always right." Samuel Butler

"Error is a hardy plant; it flourishes in every soil." Martin F. Tupper

"A mistake is simply an unscheduled detour." unknown

"I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes." Jimi Hendrix

"Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle." James Russell Lowell, "Cambridge Thirty Years Ago," Literary Essays

"It is how people respond to stress that determines whether they will profit from misfortune or be miserable." Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990

"An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation,
nor does truth become error because nobody sees it." Mohandas Gandhi

"You're not the only one who's made mistakes, but they're the only things that you can truly call your own." Billy Joel

"The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." Thomas Carlyle, writer (1795-1881)

"Only those who are asleep make no mistakes." unknown

"If you're not loving what you are doing, you're doing something wrong." Billy Joel

"It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do a little." Sydney Smith, writer and clergyman (1771-1845)

“Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it.” William Durant

"Testing can show the presence of errors, but not their absence." Edsger Dijkstra, computer scientist (1930-2002)

“Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.” Edmund Burke, statesman and writer (1729-1797)

“The mistake you make is trying to figure it out.” Tennessee Williams

“When things go wrong, don't go with them.” Anonymous

“A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.” John C. Maxwell

“Allowing an unimportant mistake to pass without comment is a wonderful social grace.” Judith Martin (b. 1938) American author, journalist [a.k.a. "Miss Manners"]

“A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.” Alexander Pope, poet (1688-1744)

“One who makes no mistakes never makes anything.” Source Unknown

“Do not fear mistakes, there are none.” Miles Davis

“Assert your right to make a few mistakes. Mistakes are the lessons of wisdom.” Anonymous

“He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.” Tryon Edwards