Quotes About Mistakes And Consequences

#1. It's easy to make mistakes. It's living with the consequences of them that's the hardest.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#2. I find poignancy in the moments when a person realizes that she has made mistakes. I am not as interested in the mistakes themselves as I am with the consequences and how the person responds to her realization.

Dana Spiotta

#3. If we get it wrong, if we repeat the mistakes of our past, the consequences could be devastating. But if we get it right, the potential benefits to the future of humanity are astonishing.

Stephen L. Petranek

#4. Of all the ingenious mistakes into which erring man has fallen, perhaps none have been so pernicious in their consequences, or have brought so many evils into the world, as the popular opinion that the way of the transgressor is pleasant and easy.

Hosea Ballou

#5. People who make mistakes are in the best position to make better choices.

Sarah Noffke

#6. We are all mistaken sometimes; sometimes we do wrong things, things that have bad consequences. But it does not mean we are evil, or that we cannot be trusted ever afterward.

Alison Croggon

#7. Mother is the reflective principle,
the balancing agent for the child.
Like a guru, she allows the child to
make mistakes and loves the child
without condition. Like nature,
she allows consequences to unfold
and balance to be restored when
it is lost.

Vimala McClure

#8. I think it's important for scientists to be a bit less arrogant, a bit more humble, recognising we are capable of making mistakes and being fallacious - which is increasingly serious in a society where our work may have unpredictable consequences.

Robert Winston

#9. We have made mistakes. In our haste to do all things for all people, we did not foresee the full consequences of our actions. And when the people raised their voices, we didn't hear. But our deafness was only a temporary condition, and not an irreversible condition.

Barbara Jordan

#10. Only free people have an incentive to be virtuous. Only people who bear the consequences of their own acts will care about those consequences and try to learn from their mistakes.

Harry Browne

#11. I find mistakes are often our best teachers. Consequences leave a more lasting impression than a mere lecture, don't you think?" "Yes, sir. Just lectures don't usually hurt as much. Except for those history lectures. They were pretty hard to endure.

Jackie Castle

#12. People make mistakes - they say things they shouldn't have or didn't necessarily mean. But I strongly believe in consequences. If there are none, someone might feel like they've gotten away with something, or that what they said couldn't have been that bad.

Katherine Heigl

#13. Some mistakes can't be undone. You just have to face that you made them and go on. No matter what happens. You have to deal with the consequences.

Ruth Cardello

#14. The welfare state shields people from the consequences of their own mistakes, allowing irresponsibility to continue and to flourish among ever wider circles of people.

Thomas Sowell

#15. I don't think we should ever regret anything we do. I think we have to accept the consequences and you learn from your mistakes, and that's how you grow as a person

Marilyn Manson

#16. You get a lot of narrative energy from people who make really big mistakes, who act against their best interests, who do things that turn out to have serious consequences. It's very hard make a story out of people doing the right thing over and over again.

Kelly Link

#17. Why are we asked to make the most important decisions of our lives when we are so young, and so prone to mistakes?

Samuel Park

#18. We all make mistakes, but it's how we deal with the consequences that show our true worth,

Freda Lightfoot

#19. Some mistakes ... Just have greater consequences than others. But you don't have to let the result of one mistake be the thing that defines you. You, Clark, have the choice not to let that happen.

Jojo Moyes

#20. you may be wrong to be right in the wrong direction, but, what is the wrong direction?

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#21. You'll never avoid every mistake. All you can do is try to do your best and live with the consequences.

K. Martin Beckner

#22. I know I should just leave. Just go. Because there's a point where a mistake turns into a big mistake, and I should probably come to my senses before I get there.

David Levithan

#23. To punish someone for your own mistakes or for the consequences of your own actions, to harm another by shifting blame that is rightly yours; this is a wretched and cowardly sin.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#24. I think that's the hardest part about mistakes: Sometimes the consequences aren't physical. Sometimes they simply chip away at the essence of who you are.

Tammy L. Gray

#25. Because many of us make mistakes that can have bad consequences, some intellectuals believe that it is the role of government to intervene and make some of our decisions for us. From what galaxy government is going to hire creatures who do not make mistakes is a question they leave unanswered.

Thomas Sowell

#26. I realize now that I have made some mistakes. I am willing to accept the consequences of those actions.

Ryan Braun

#27. For every choice you make, there is a consequence to face. Choose wisely!

Kemi Sogunle

#28. For those filled with regret, perhaps the most needful exercise of proactivity is to realize that past mistakes are also out there in the Circle of Concern. We can't recall them, we can't undo them, we can't control the consequences that came as a result.

Stephen R. Covey

#29. It was then that I knew. Without a doubt in my mind, without worry of what others would think, and having no fear of mistakes or consequences, I smiled at the words I would say.

Jamie McGuire

#30. The only difference between an experienced knitter and new knitter is that the experienced knitter makes bigger mistakes faster. Be bold; there are no terrible consequences in knitting.

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

#31. The hardest mistakes to learn from are those that lack consequence.

Jasper Sole

#32. We live with the decisions we make, Bill. That's what bravery is. Standing by the consequences of your mistakes.

M.L. Stedman

#33. One mistake cannot justify another.

Raheel Farooq

#34. Some mistakes have greater consequences then others. You don't have to let one mistake define you

Jojo Moyes