The only thing worse than making an investment mistake is refusing to admit it and correct it. Usually the faster an error is rectified the less it costs. — Thomas Phelps
A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable. — Robert Fripp
The wise are not wise because they make no mistakes. They are wise because they correct their mistakes as soon as they recognize them. — Orson Scott Card
Mistakes are the portals of discovery. — James Joyce
Short Mistake Correction Quotes
Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them. — Bruce Lee
Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts. — Nikki Giovanni
One mistake will never kill you. The same mistake over and over again will. — Harvey Mackay
By amending our mistakes, we get wisdom. By defending our faults, we betray an unsound mind. — Huineng
A mistake isn't a mistake if you learn a lesson from it. — Garth Brooks
The only mistake in life is the lesson not learned. — Albert Einstein
Mistakes - call them unexpected learning experiences. — Richard Bach
Mistakes aren't fatal; they are merely the portals of discovery. — Josh Linkner
If you are wrong, admit it quickly and emphatically. — Dale Carnegie
Mistakes happen. But after a while you've got to stop making them happen twice. — Allen Iverson
Mistake Correction Image Quotes
Tell my mistakes to me not to others. Because my mistakes are to be corrected by me not by others.
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
Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them. — Salvador Dali
Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes. — George Soros
An error does not become a mistake, until you refuse to correct it.
Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes. — George Soros
The heavens will not be filled with those who never made mistakes but with those who recognized that they were off course and who corrected their ways to get back in the light of gospel truth. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
We can only learn from mistakes, by identifying them, determining their source, and correcting them... people learn more from their own mistakes than from the successes of others. — Russell L. Ackoff
I'm afraid that we all make mistakes. One of the things that defines our character is how we handle mistakes. If we lie about having made a mistake, then it can't be corrected and it festers. On the other hand, if we give up just because we made a mistake, even a big mistake, none of us would get far in life. — Terry Goodkind
Actually nobody can be perfect in cricket. Everybody makes mistakes. It is important to learn from your mistakes and correct them. — Kumar Sangakkara
Regard as your most faithful friends, not those who praise everything you say or do, but those who criticize your mistakes. — Isocrates
The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Failure is an opportunity. If you blame someone else, there is no end to the blame. Therefore the Master fulfills her own obligations and corrects her own mistakes. She does what she needs to do and demands nothing of others. — Lao Tzu
All leaders make mistakes. They are a part of life. Successful leaders recognize their errors, learn from them, and work to correct their faults. — John C. Maxwell
Help those who make mistakes; your feet walk on the same ground, and even if you possess the possibility to correct them, you have no right to censure them. — Chico Xavier
The sages do not consider that making no mistakes is a blessing. They believe, rather, that the great virtue of man lies in his ability to correct his mistakes and continually make a new man of himself. — Wang Yangming
Base yourself in loyalty and trust. Don't be companion with those who are not your moral equal. When you make a mistake, don't hesitate to correct it. — Confucius
If you are unsure of a course of action, do not attempt it. Your doubts and hesitations will infect your execution. Timidity is dangerous: Better to enter with boldness. Any mistakes you commit through audacity are easily corrected with more audacity. Everyone admires the bold; no one honors the timid. — Robert Greene
Why are pencils equipped with erasers if not to correct mistakes? — Nellie L. McClung
It seems that the necessary thing to do is not to fear mistakes, to plunge in, to do the best that one can, hoping to learn enough from blunders to correct them eventually. — Abraham Maslow
Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision. — Thomas Sowell
How do children learn to correct their mistakes?
By watching how you correct yours.
How do children learn to overcome their failures?
By watching how you overcome yours.
How do children learn to treat themselves with forgiveness?
By watching you forgive yourself. — William Martin
The key to investment success is emotional discipline. Making money has nothing to do with intelligence. To be a successful investor, you have to be able to admit mistakes. I trained a guy to trade who had a 188 IQ. He was on "Jeopardy" once and answered every question correctly. That same person never made a dime in trading during 5 years! — Victor Sperandeo
He that never changes his opinion never corrects mistakes and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today. — Tryon Edwards
If the work is poor, the public taste will soon do it justice. And the author, reaping neither glory nor fortune, will learn by hard experience how to correct his mistakes. — Jacques-Louis David
I not only could not stifle controversy among your readers.. I welcome it. This Administration intends to be candid about its errors; for as a wise man once said: "An error does not become a mistake until you refuse to correct it." We intend to accept full responsibility for our errors; and we expect you to point them out when we miss them. — John F. Kennedy
Allowing an unimportant mistake to pass without a comment is a wonderful social grace ... Children who have the habit of constantly correcting should be stopped before they grow up to drive spouses and everyone else crazy by interrupting stories to say, 'No, dear -- it was Tuesday, not Wednesday. — Judith Martin
Some part of a mistake is always correct — Savielly Tartakower
Begin with praise and honest appreciation. Call attention to people's mistakes indirectly. Talk about your own mistakes before criticizing the other person. Ask questions instead of giving direct orders. Make the fault easy to correct. Make the other person happy about doing what you suggest. — Dale Carnegie
You can’t bake a cake without getting the kitchen messy. Halfway through surgery it looks like there’s been a murder in the operating room. If you send a rocket to the moon, about ninety percent of the time it’s off course—it ‘fails’ its way to the moon by continually making mistakes and correcting them. — Price Pritchett
'The scientific method,' Thomas Henry Huxley once wrote, 'is nothing but the normal working of the human mind.' That is to say, when the mind is working; that is to say further, when it is engaged in correcting its mistakes. — Neil Postman
If there ever was a misnomer, it is "exact science." Science has always been full of mistakes. The present day is no exception. And our mistakes are good mistakes; they require a genius to correct. Of course, we do not see our own mistakes. — Edward Teller
If we could be twice young and twice old we could correct all our mistakes. — Euripides
If the gentleman is not serious, he will not be respected, and his learning will not be on a firm foundation. He considers loyalty and faithfulness to be fundamental, has no friends who are not like him, and when he has made mistakes, he is not afraid of correcting them. — Confucius
Patience gives your spouse permission to be human. It understands that everyone fails. When a mistake is made, it chooses to give them more time that they deserve to correct it. It gives you the ability to hold on during the rough times in your relationship rather than bailing out under the pressure. — Stephen Kendrick
Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew. — Ibrahim Babangida
The choice is between which mistake is easier to correct: underdoing it or overdoing it. — Timothy Geithner
Mistakes in judgment are the best teachers in the world, and if you choose to learn from them then you will begin to trust yourself and understand that, correct or incorrect you were decisive and moved on. — Jeffrey Gitomer
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