Top 100 Mistakes I Quotes
#1. I'm ashamed of what I did, but I'm not ashamed of what I've done to correct my mistakes ... I'm proud of who I am.
Eddie Guerrero
#2. I'm just smart enough to know what it is I don't know and try to learn as I go along and accept that you're going to make mistakes, and there are going to be things that are not going to be perfect.
Ronald D. Moore
#3. Every human being makes mistakes, so why should you be afraid? Go to the One who can get rid of the mistakes and tell him, 'Sir, these are the kind of mistakes I make', so he will show you the solution.
Dada Bhagwan
#4. Like I've been sketched by an amateur artist: if you don't look too closely, it's all right, but start focusing and all the smudges and mistakes become really obvious.
Lauren Oliver
#5. I could never do a job that entailed complicating people's lives
Frank Healy
#6. However, I have a low opinion of people with narrow political horizons. Someone who talks about the environment and knows nothing about economics can make as many mistakes as someone who does the opposite.
Sigmar Gabriel
#7. I've made so many mistakes, so many corrections. I'm so far from perfect so many imperfections. But I'm a go getta I get up and go get it, so if you preaching prosperity, i wanna hit it ...
50 Cent
#8. I've certainly done some turkeys along the way and made some dumb choices in my career, mostly early on. I'm one of the lucky ones who got to make a lot of mistakes very early when no one was paying attention.
George Clooney
#9. I do think that when you make repeated mistakes, it's usually because you're just not coming to grips with something.
Ben Folds
#10. Fools you are who say you like to learn from your mistakes. I prefer to learn from the mistakes of others, and avoid the cost of my own.
Otto Von Bismarck
#11. I'd rather make a thousand mistakes trying for a better life, than to die not making any mistakes at all.
Steven Aitchison
#12. Your mother doesn't make mistakes." I hear her blow out the smoke. "Baby, I know what I'm doing.
Holly Black
#13. If I have gained anything over these months, it is the knowledge there is no starting over- only living with the mistakes you've made.
Jodi Picoult
#14. They've imitated me so good that sometimes I hear people copying my mistakes
Jimi Hendrix
#15. If I bother to listen, I can navigate by failure just as much as I can navigate by success.
Sharon Weil
#17. No more excuses. I can't blame anything on my parents. I'm responsible for my mistakes and my choices.
Brad Pitt
#18. Almost everything I've done is technically wrong, but Paul never mentioned the mistakes, only the corrective measures.
Stefan Fatsis
#19. Very little of what America does is actually bad, and I don't think it ever does anything anywhere that is intentionally bad. I mean, sometimes we make mistakes and bad judgments and kind of back the wrong regimes and things, but by and large what America does is really good.
Bill Bryson
#20. I learned from my mistakes; I was able to accept the things that were my fault and to be able to grow from that. You have to be able to see growth from your experiences, and I've done that.
LisaRaye McCoy-Misick
#21. Mistakes,' he said with effort, 'are also important to me. I don't cross them out of my life, or memory. And I never blame others for them.
Andrzej Sapkowski
#22. I have made many mistakes and done a lot of foolish things, but when I look back on the person I was, I feel affection for him and laugh at him.
Thomas Moore
#23. Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.
Vincent Van Gogh
#24. Let's cut to the chase, the sharia controversy. I don't think I, or my colleagues, predicted just how enormous the reaction would be. I failed to find the right words. I succeeded in confusing people. I've made mistakes - that's probably one of them.
Rowan Williams
#25. I have made number mistakes - I have such bad number dyslexia that I can look at a number and see the wrong one. I can't remember them worth beans.
Sherwood Smith
#26. One of the things I've learned is there's no lesson to be learned. You have to resign yourself to the fact that mistakes are going to be made at any time in the creative process.
Damon Lindelof
#27. I can live with my own mistakes. I can't live with anybody else's.
Victoria Beckham
#28. Also, I plan to screw something up on every movie I do so that I can learn from my mistakes and become a better director with each project.
Richard King
#29. I always try to find something I like about the bad guys and then try to find the mistakes and the flaws in the good guys.
Mads Mikkelsen
#30. I wish I could tell him that we're going through the same thing. I wish I could speak to him like I want to instead of like I'm supposed to. But the idea of admitting that I need help is too much to bear, so I turn away.
Veronica Roth
#31. I play a position where you make mistakes. The only people that don't make them at a hockey game are the people watching.
Patrick Roy
#32. The thing that I like about the way characters are written on the show these days is that nobody's perfect. Everyone has made a lot of mistakes and bad choices.
Crystal Chappell
#33. I think many start-ups make mistakes because they are focusing on things that are farther ahead, and they haven't done the work that has built the foundation to support it.
Howard Schultz
#34. I've always believed that hustle can make up for a lot of mistakes.
John Wooden
#35. I'd not known such mistakes to happen
but we don't learn so much
from those things we do correctly
so perhaps it's best we see poorly
through our misconstructed eyes
David R. Cravens
#36. I know that in my past I was young and irresponsible - but that's what growing up is. You learn from your mistakes.
Lindsay Lohan
#38. So fear helps me from making mistakes, but I make lot of mistakes.
Steve Irwin
#39. I have always told my subordinates that when they commit any mistakes, the blame must be laid on the superior officers.
Chiang Kai-shek
#40. I guess we're all composed of a lot of mistakes; we just have to figure out how to take our mistakes and make something good out of them.
K. Martin Beckner
#41. I'm not a bad parent and partner, even if I make a thousand mistakes.
Diane Lane
#42. In 2003, Congress should have resisted the rush to a war of choice with Iraq. I will do everything in my power to prevent us from repeating the mistakes of my predecessors.
John Garamendi
#43. I have never regretted our foolhardiness. Of course, we made mistakes, endless mistakes, but at least they were our own, just as the garden was our own.
Margery Fish
#44. Paradise is being able to say at that (second before our death) moment: I made some mistakes, but I wasn't a coward. I lived life and did what I had to do.
Paulo Coelho
#45. Perhaps it is because I'm a writer trained in history that I've always assumed I would make mistakes in my drafts. Historians know how faulty human memory can be.
Alice Dreger
#46. You would be surprised at the healing power of a simple "I love you" from a dying parent to a child or vice versa. This is not always easy, of course, yet a lifetime of mistakes can be undone through forgiveness even at the end of a life.
Alberto Villoldo
#47. I think that we have to be aware that people are allowed to make mistakes
Amy Winehouse
#48. I make a hundred mistakes a day. I am, and have been, and will continue to be, wrong about almost everything.
Larry Brilliant
#49. I made a big mistake, and I didn't use it to make my life better. I used it to be okay with a life less lived. I used it to be okay with mediocrity and the mundane. And I didn't make myself any better because of it.
And that's not okay with me.
Dan Pearce
#50. When someone points out your past mistakes, look at them dead in the eyes and follow with, 'and I'd do it all again to have the life I have now.
Dan Pearce
#52. I realize I'm not a machine. I'm going to make mistakes.
Fuzzy Zoeller
#53. Everyone says that you should live like there is no tomorrow, but I think it's even more important to live like there is no yesterday. Your future means so much more than your past.
John A. Ashley
#54. Death was hard, I got that, but it was only hard for those you left behind. Life was what was really difficult. Everyone here no longer had to suffer, be in pain, relive past mistakes. They were sleeping on, unaware of the problems around them. Death seemed like the easy way out. Life was harder.
Bailey Ardisone
#55. Mistakes are expensive. Mistakes are good, because we can learn from them. I must be a slow learner because I repeat most of mine.
Linda Greenlaw
#56. The flaws, the mistakes I make - that's the real me.
Nas
#57. And I know, too, that recognizing one's mistakes does not erase them.
Susie Morgenstern
#58. I need to be allowed to make my own decisions and mistakes, take leaps - and fall - without receiving too much help, because it's what I'll be doing for the rest of my life.
Adora Svitak
#59. Even when life hurts, I see no reason to give up. All the mistakes makes me angry, and my anger refuses to lose.
Tricia Furtado
#60. I like them all - I don't always approve. I see myself as a sort of benevolent uncle to these characters, and I can see why they do what they do; sometimes they make some mistakes, but at heart I think they're decent.
Patrick Marber
#61. The more mistakes I make, the least I judge other people's mistakes
Bayan Bahi
#62. I'm always criticizing and only see the mistakes.
David Chang
#63. I think making shorts is really about giving yourself the opportunity to learn what your strengths and weaknesses are. That's really important to know before getting to your first feature. In many ways you can't afford to make too many mistakes while on that feature.
Aurora Guerrero
#64. The Vancouver Olympics was the first competition where I completed the short and free programs without any mistakes, and that in itself was a huge achievement.
Kim Yuna
#65. People don't need to know what Albert Belle is thinking. I've learned from my mistakes in the past, and that's what's made me a better person.
Albert Belle
#66. I love people who make mistakes. That's why I'm in the teaching business. I love people who make mistakes because I enjoy watching them learn and helping them, assisting them. I find it a beautiful process.
Frederick Lenz
#67. I quite like mistakes. I think they're human.
Sting
#68. They said I looked like a foreign devil; they said I spoke like a foreign devil. I made mistakes in manners, and I didn't know delicacies that had grown up since my father left. They wouldn't have me. You can believe it or not - I'm less foreign here than I was in China.
John Steinbeck
#69. It's a wise man who understands that every day is a new beginning, because boy, how many mistakes do you make in a day? I don't know about you, but I make plenty. You can't turn the clock back, so you have to look ahead.
Mel Gibson
#70. My conceptual framework, which basically emphasizes the importance of misconceptions, makes me extremely critical of my own decisions. I know that I am bound to be wrong, and therefore am more likely to correct my own mistakes.
George Soros
#71. I am not the kind of woman who excuses her mistakes while reminding us of what used to be.
Gene Tierney
#72. I think it's a mistake for young filmmakers to just buy digital equipment and shoot a feature. Make short films first, make your mistakes and learn from them.
Jason Reitman
#73. I always felt myself to be an unlucky person like Donald, who is a victim of so many circumstances. But there isn't a person in the United States who couldn't identify with him. He is everything, he is everybody; he makes the same mistakes that we all make.
Carl Barks
#74. I don't know about forgiving, but it's an "I'm still here." And it's not just because I have nowhere else to go. It's because I believe in the possibility. I believe in the possibility of another way of being. Let's make other kinds of mistakes; let's be flawed differently.
Claudia Rankine
#75. I'm never satisfied. I'm always trying to get better and learn from my mistakes.
Russell Westbrook
#76. I think one of the biggest mistakes you can make as a writer is to follow your initial [writing] plan too stringently. A story needs room to grow and evolve.
Patrick Rothfuss
#77. I focus on darker things or bad behavior or explicit dialogue because creatively I am more interested in my mistakes and why I made them than my good deeds and my achievements.
Leslye Headland
#78. If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.
John Wooden
#79. If you're cooking and not making mistakes, you're not playing outside your safety zone. I don't expect it all to be good. I have fat dogs because I scrap that stuff out the back door.
Guy Fieri
#80. I've made so many mistakes. But it is my feeling that you learn from failures, so I welcome them as often as I can.
David Duchovny
#81. There were a million What Ifs that could have stopped the whole thing. A million things I wished I'd done differently. But in the end, I was left with what actually happened. With my mistakes and his.
Rachel Vincent
#82. Fools say that they learn by experience. I prefer to profit by others experience.
Otto Von Bismarck
#83. I've got to learn something from my mistakes instead of establishing a new record to break.
Carrie Fisher
#84. Oh, don't you see? There must be a limit to the mistakes one person can make, and when I get to the end of them, then I'll be through with them. That's a very comforting thought.
L.M. Montgomery
#85. But I've swallowed my pride before, that's for sure. I'm practically lined with my mistakes on the inside like a bad-wallpapered bathroom.
Barbara Kingsolver
#86. As soon as you become afraid to make a fool of yourself, you're in trouble. I decided I may as well just see if I can live with myself making millions of mistakes and learn something from it.
Gelsey Kirkland
#87. The best Morning Prayer for endless peace would be, "Today I will forgive everyone for their mistakes. Today I will love everyone without judging them. Today I will be kind to everyone even if they do not deserve it. Today I will be a fountain of peace to create waves of joy around me.
Debasish Mridha
#88. I make mistakes. That's what I do. I
speak without thinking, I act without
knowing. I drink so much that I can
barely walk ... I'm a fantastic lover
though, and an amazing friend. God
knows I mean well.
Candace Bushnell
#89. Even as I stand here and admit that we have made mistakes I still believe that as the people of America sit in judgment on each party, they will recognize that our mistakes were mistakes of the heart. They'll recognize that.
Barbara Jordan
#90. I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes ... you're Doing Something.
Neil Gaiman
#91. Okay I've been stupid in the past. Not consistently stupid, but occasionally stupid. And I've made mistakes. You bet, I've made mistakes.
Charlaine Harris
#92. When I look in the mirror and the only one there is me
Every freckle on my face is where it's suppose to be
And I know my creator didn't make no mistakes on me
My feet, my thighs, my Lips, my eyes, I'm loving what I see
India.Arie
#93. You know what's amazing to me? America. There have been so many people who have stepped up, and I'm just proud to be an American. Yeah, there were some mistakes made, but I don't play the blame game. Let's move forward and rebuild New Orleans.
Charles Barkley
#94. We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.
Norman Vincent Peale
#95. When we make mistakes, say, I'm blessed that I have an opportunity to learn from this.
Holly Near
#96. It will be my birthday on Tuesday. Last year, I reached the painful conclusion that there wasn't enough time left to read every book ever written. This year, my gloomy realisation is even more painful - I will not be able to correct everyone's mistakes before I depart.
Daniel Finkelstein
#97. I have a very steadfast tendency to parent myself, to monitor my development into the person I want to be. I try to keep the corruption minimal. And though I advocate learning from my mistakes as much as making mistakes, I also try and make sure my mistakes do not cost other people.
Fiona Apple
#98. And I was shocked to see the mistakes of each generation will just fade like a radio station, if we drive out of range.
Ani DiFranco
#99. One of the most valuable lessons I learned ... is that we all have to learn from our mistakes, and we learn from those mistakes a lot more than we learn from the things we succeeded in doing.
Ann Richards
#100. Show me a man who makes no mistakes, and I will show you a man who doesn't do things.
Theodore Roosevelt
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