Top 100 Quotes About Mistakes
#1. The worst mistakes I've made have been the ones directed by sweet-natured hopefulness.
Charles Baxter
#2. Not to give away the woman one loved, but to back her up in her mistakes
once they had gone a certain length
that was perhaps chief among the inevitabilities of the abjection of love.
Henry James
#3. And bad mistakes I've made a few I've had my share of sand kicked in my face - But I've come through
Queen
#4. Learning from mistakes helps prevent the repetition of negative patterns.
John Gray
#5. Giving our children rest means being their safe harbor, their place to retreat when life hurts and the world looms large and people disappoint and mistakes are made. Becoming that safe harbor means being free ~ freely available, freely offered, freely welcoming.
L.R. Knost
#6. Chris may be imperfect, and he makes mistakes, but I can feel his heart, and I know that he is mine.
Jessica Park
#8. Make sure you live,' she said. 'As decent as you can. I know you'll make mistakes, but sometimes you're meant to, okay?
Markus Zusak
#9. When you find your path, you must ignore fear. You need to have the courage to risk mistakes. But once you are on that road ... run, run, run, and don't stop til you've reached its end.
Jose N. Harris
#10. It is up to the leader to create a healthy environment where people are not afraid to fail. Mistakes should be seen as an integral part of the organizational process. They are a normal part of striving for excellence.
Andrew Harvey
#11. It is one of the commonest of our mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all that there is to perceive.
Charles W. Leadbeater
#12. How we all make mistakes. And how sometimes those mistakes make our life richer.
Carrie Ryan
#13. To the wise man, to the wise nation, the mistakes of the past are the torches of the present.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#14. Don't forgive people until they understand their mistakes.
M.F. Moonzajer
#15. You always want to see people who are just like a little outside of the box. Maybe making mistakes sometimes. Not taking something that's straight off the runway, but mixing and matching things. Old and new.
Jacob Hashimoto
#16. But we're assassins: when we make mistakes, people live
Steven Brust
#17. Management that is destructively critical when mistakes are made kills initiative. And it's essential that we have many people with initiative if we are to continue to grow.
William L. McKnight
#18. Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.
Jules Verne
#19. And as a true athlete, mistakes haunt you forever.
Jim Otto
#20. If there is not folly in the world, then the world itself is folly. You must understand that mistakes are not always regrets.
Paul Tobin
#21. 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
#23. If I ran the whole place like it was my way or the highway, we would not be as good a company. I'm going to have mistakes - they'll be made on my watch and will embarrass me. But I'll also make sure the company learns from them so it can become a better company.
Jamie Dimon
#24. You can make of fool of others but not you. ... You can forgive others for their mistakes, but not you for your own mistakes.
Girdhar Joshi
#25. Don't be afraid to fail. Experience is just mistakes you don't make anymore.
Joe Garagiola
#26. Have the courage to be exactly who you are without apology. Admit your mistakes without beating yourself up. Release all shame! Release all guilt! You cannot live if you are hiding behind what was. Focus on what is, right now, and that is you!
Iyanla Vanzant
#27. Although every person makes mistakes, not every mistake makes a person.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#28. The mistakes made by Congress wouldn't be so bad if the next Congress didn't keep trying to correct them.
Cullen Hightower
#29. The forming of general maxims from particular observation is a very nice operation; and nothing is more usual, from haste or a narrowness of mind, which sees not on all sides, than to commit mistakes in this particular.
David Hume
#30. When I finish a first draft, it's always just as much of a mess as it's always been. I still make the same mistakes every time.
Michael Chabon
#31. We all mess up. It's what we learn from our mistakes that matters.
Lauren Myracle
#32. Knowledge unlocks the door to the mysteries of our mistakes; wisdom guides us away from repeating them. HS/el
Evinda Lepins
#33. Living life is so simple if only you accept yourself and learn to forgive your mistakes and others.
Wordfaith3
#34. I can make a case that I regret nothing. After all, most of my mistakes turned out to be things I survived, or turned into funny stories, or, on occasion, even made money from.
Nora Ephron
#35. Pat Roberts and I both feel very strongly that when we get to Iran, that we can't make the same mistakes. We have to ask the questions, the hard questions before, not afterwards, and get the right intelligence.
Jay Rockefeller
#36. My philosophy is that it's better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe and not to explore at all.
Sophia Loren
#37. A society that does not use the intellectual power of its female population fully is not a wise society. Most women are not as tainted by mistakes in the conduct of the economy as the male population, and now they deserve an opportunity.
Johanna Siguroardottir
#38. Golf is not a game of great shots. It's a game of most accurate misses. The people who win make the smallest mistakes.
Gene Littler
#39. People make mistakes. They do things sometimes that you don't like, that you wouldn't do. But that doesn't mean you should give up on them, that you should write them off. Because nobody is hopeless as long as they're still breathing.
J.M. Darhower
#40. 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
#41. Our world must always keep hope in their hearts for a better change. As long as you have life, you have the hope to change darken nights into brighter days. Learn from mistakes of yesterday, live for dreams today,
hope for a brighter tomorrow!
Timothy Pina
#42. Make the mistakes of youth is no crime, but not to learn from them is.
Jim Butcher
#43. We all get hurt at some point in a relationship, Lucas. It happens a lot in a marriage. Even the best ones have someone getting hurt at one point or another. The key is to apologize when you do hurt her and learn from your mistakes. No one expects you to be perfect.
Samantha Chase
#44. Well, have you even tried again? You can't just sit around waiting for the new world to take it with you. You have to go out and be part of it - despite your past mistakes.
Markus Zusak
#45. Sometimes we don't understand right away why things happen. Sometimes we never understand. But that doesn't mean those things are mistakes." ~ Jake Samuels
Mary Manners
#46. Look, you do the bloody well best you can. You fumble. You make mistakes.
Hume Cronyn
#47. There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting. - BUDDHA
Jacqueline Novogratz
#48. I am the first to admit I have made a couple of mistakes: two trips to rehab, Rudebox, the album, Geri Halliwell. I should have gone for Victoria, really, shouldn't I? I'd have been really famous.
Robbie Williams
#49. A boy can't imagine how hard he will find it, someday, to forgive his own enemies. Or his own loved ones. He has no inkling that good men can sometimes find it impossible to forgive themselves. The darkest mistakes can be forgiven, but they can never be undone.
Ian Caldwell
#50. There was no correcting past mistakes, especially since he could see no real 'mistakes' he had made. He had done the best he could, and that had proven insufficient.
Brandon Sanderson
#51. When the clouds over the land rise like a mountain, a long with it's wishes, it can never cover the errors and mistakes made by Kings.
Auliq Ice
#52. If the movie works, nobody notices the mistakes ... If the movie doesn't work, the only thing people notice are mistakes.
Francis Ford Coppola
#53. It is much easier at all times to prevent an evil than to rectify mistakes.
George Washington
#54. What's the point of regret? It makes you feel awful, and you can't get the time back. The important thing is to realize your mistakes and know better.
Anonymous
#55. As for all those mistakes I make - they are on purpose - to teach you how to deal with them.
Donald Norman
#56. One of the mistakes I made was believing that the rock n' roll genre as a genre was much more free than the whole pop or R&B scene.
Joan Jett
#57. It was a style not of perfection, but warmth. Even mistakes had a good feeling about them
Markus Zusak
#58. No, but still, the fact is, at least this is how it seems to me, everybody has to learn about it [love] from scratch for themselves. And we all make the same mistakes time and again while we're learning.
Aidan Chambers
#59. Perhaps because my relationship with my father went through such a long, bumpy time, it's been very important for me to work to try to keep lines of communication open between my sons and myself to try to avoid my father's mistakes. At least if you're making mistakes, make different mistakes.
Salman Rushdie
#60. Entrepreneurs who dip into soccer also keep making the same mistakes. They buy clubs promising to run them "like a business" and disappear a few seasons later amid the same public derision as the previous owners.
Simon Kuper
#61. A man who never makes mistakes has long since ceased to do anything new. A man who is always making mistakes is a doomed man with swollen ambitions. But he who judiciously salts success with mistake is the rapid learner.
Donald Kingsbury
#62. Some stories will help you find happiness and truth. Some stories teach you not to make the same mistakes twice. These ones offer instructions.
Lloyd Jones
#63. Paulo Coelho once said that following your dream is like learning a foreign language; you will make mistakes but you will get there in the end.
Paulo Coelho
#64. I firmly believe that you live and learn, and if you don't learn from past mistakes, then you need to be drug out and shot.
R. Lee Ermey
#66. As my mother says, your forties are when you finally pay for your past mistakes, the cigarettes and sunburns, the Big Macs and smooth-talking men. She may be right.
Sarah Strohmeyer
#67. We all make mistakes, but one of our biggest mistakes is continually revisiting the past.
Bryant McGill
#68. Mistakes could be improved
if, It hits on Heart
Samar Sudha
#69. One of the commonest mistakes is thinking your worries are over when your children get married.
Kin Hubbard
#70. Life is about coming to terms with the mistakes made. Learning to live with them even when they cut soul deep.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#72. Play on, when you're losing the game. Play on, cuz you're going to make mistakes. It's always worth the sacrifice, even when you think you're wrong.
Carrie Underwood
#73. Yesterday's dirt and mistakes have moved through me. I am shiny and pink inside, clean. Empty is good. Empty is strong.
Laurie Halse Anderson
#74. All the mistakes I ever made were when I wanted to say 'No' and said 'Yes'.
Moss Hart
#75. A fool mistakes meekness for weakness and a quiet tongue for an idle mind.
R.A. Mathis
#76. When you don't have someone to model yourself after, you're going to make mistakes.
Blake Lively
#77. We have to live within the framework of our limitations and the mistakes we make. Argue with Destiny, but never try to wrestle it into submission. If you do, you'll end up losing.
Adib Khan
#78. When a leader takes responsibility for his own actions and mistakes, he not only sets a good example, he shows a healthy respect for people on his team
Mike Krzyzewski
#79. Specialists are people who always repeat the same mistakes.
Walter Gropius
#81. If you get the important things right, than there is a lot of room in life to make little mistakes.
Keith Koeneman
#82. If we make mistakes, as we all do - don't run from God, run to Him.
T. B. Joshua
#83. Commit harmless mistakes that will not hurt you in the long run but will give you the chance to ask for his help. Masters adore such requests. A master who cannot bestow on you the gifts of his experience may direct rancor and ill will at you instead.
Robert Greene
#84. There are so many mistakes you can learn only by making them yourself. There is no substitute for experience.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#85. Live, learn, and make mistakes. But, never forget to love.
Debasish Mridha
#86. You learn from your mistakes, or you go backward. I'm the kind of person who wants to move forward.
Ndamukong Suh
#87. Whatever strengths and weaknesses we possess are all a part of God's plan for our beautiful, messy lives. He uses every detail of our mess for his greater glory, and can redeem even our deepest, darkest, most daring mistakes until they're more beautiful than we could've ever imagined.
Stacey Thacker
#88. Nowadays people talk about the things he did as though they made sense. As though even his most disastrous mistakes were only the result of bad luck or hubris.
Jeanette Winterson
#89. The best lessons learned are from other peoples mistakes.
Melissa Bradley
#90. I've had all six of my books reach the New York Times bestseller list, which is especially rewarding seeing as I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn't write. It just goes to show you that we learn from our mistakes.
Robert Kiyosaki
#91. When you campaign and have to participate in so many debates just to the win the nomination of your party, you've had a lot of practice. You get to figure out as you go from one debate to another where you made your mistakes. By the time you get to the big debate you're pretty polished.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#92. You learn from mistakes, but Shakespeare is one big non mistake isn't he? He just got everything right really.
Janet Suzman
#93. But after all I find in my work an echo of what struck me. I see that nature has told me something, has spoken to me, and that I have put it down in shorthand. In my shorthand there may be words that cannot be deciphered. There may be mistakes or gap
Vincent Van Gogh
#94. Historical fiction of course is particularly research-heavy. The details of everyday life are there to trip you up. Things that we take for granted, indeed, hardly think about, can lead to tremendous mistakes.
Sara Sheridan
#95. Love does not reflect. Love is simple. Love never mistakes. Likewise believe and trust without reflection, for faith and trust are also simple; or better: God, in whom we believe and in whom we trust, is an incomplex Being, as He is also simply love.
John Of Kronstadt
#96. Most of the problems of the world stem from linguistic mistakes and simple misunderstandings. Don't ever take words at face value. When you step into the zone of love, language as we know it becomes obsolete. That which cannot be put into words can only be grasped through silence.
Elif Shafak
#98. I believe that God both wills and is able to bring good out of everything, even the worst ... I believe that even our mistakes and wrongdoing are not fruitless ...
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#99. God doesn't make mistakes and timing unfolds as it should.
Ashley Judd
#100. Whether the guys are nervous or just had mental breakdowns, it happens. The game is a game of mistakes. And how you deal with them and correct them and all the things like that is what makes this game great and makes hockey the sport it is.
Chris Pronger
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