Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

A step in the wrong direction is better than staying on the spot all our life. Once you're moving forward you can correct your course as you go. Your automatic guidance system cannot guide you when you're standing still.

When you're in school, every little mistake is a permanent crack in your windshield. But in the real world, if you're not swerving around and hitting the guard rails every now and then, you're not going fast enough. Your biggest risk isn't failing; it's getting too comfortable.

Even when you've made mistakes in life, you can still contribute and pick up the stuff and move on.

An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.

I mean, the general rule is if you're not prepared to make a mistake, you're not going to make much progress.

Some of my biggest victories have come directly after some of my biggest failures.

I am all for changing, even if mistakes are made in the process. Mistakes do not matter.

When we are confronted by failure and mistakes, we can leave them behind and go on with our lives.

Failure is just a way for our lives to show us we're moving in the wrong direction, that we should try something different

Mistakes happen. But after a while you've got to stop making them happen twice.

Put one dumb foot in front of the other and course-correct as you go.

I've been taught not to have any regrets. If we were to add up all of the hours spent regretting mistakes and use that time to develop new ideas, who knows how many brilliant new businesses would be created.

Learn from the past, but don't live there. Build on what you know so that you don't repeat mistakes.

Making mistakes is the privilege of the active - of those who can correct their mistakes and put them right.

I wish I could've lived my life without making any wrong turns. But that's impossible. A path like that doesn't exist. We fail. We trip. We get lost. We make mistakes. And little by little, one step at a time, we push forward. It's all we can do. On our own two feet.

You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone.

I've made so many mistakes that if I don't make the same mistakes over, we're going to come pretty close to winning.

The only mistakes you can learn from are the ones you survive.

Heaven knows, we all make mistakes. That's life - and chess.

Every sailor knows that you can't sail a ship that isn't moving forward, strong leaders understand that to change direction, you first have to create forward progress.

After every mistake, we need to understand that we can look back and learn-so that we can move forward with confidence and avoid making the same mistake again.

Make your mistakes, next year and forever.

Today is a new day. You will get out of it just what you put into it...If you have made mistakes, even serious mistakes, there is always another chance for you. And supposing you have tried and failed again and again, you may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down.

The value of action is that we make mistakes; mistakes show us what we need to learn.

Mistakes come from doing, but so does success.