Top 62 Quotes About Other People's Mistakes
#1. The difference between a wise man and a fool is a wise man learns his lessons from other people's mistakes and a fool only learns from his own.
Duane "Dog" Chapman
#2. The more mistakes I make, the least I judge other people's mistakes
Bayan Bahi
#3. Some of us learn from other people's mistakes and the rest of us have to be other people.
Zig Ziglar
#4. Learn from other people's mistakes. Life is too short to make them all yourself.
Sam Levenson
#5. It's important to learn from your mistakes, but it is BETTER to learn from other people's mistakes, and it is BEST to learn from other people's successes. It accelerates your own success.
Jim Rohn
#6. The premise of this book is that it is easier to recognize other people's mistakes than our own.
Daniel Kahneman
#7. I try my best to learn from other people's mistakes. I have a lot of respect for people who can change.
Mike Tyson
#8. Learning from other people's mistakes is better than making your owns. And it is easier to live lonely than to have a broken heart.
Aria Adams
#10. Always try to learn from other people's mistakes, not your own- it is much cheaper that way!
Donald Trump
#11. The more mistakes I make, the less I judge other people's mistakes
Bayan Bahi
#12. Rock bottom for some people is death. Some people never learn from their mistakes. They don't learn from other people's mistakes.
Tracy Morgan
#13. God's love doesn't rejoice over the other people's mistakes and weaknesses.
Euginia Herlihy
#14. I see that,' I said. I thought I did. 'But every case is different. And anyway, you can't learn from other people's mistakes.'
'Not unless you're very clever,' said Dexter sadly.
Tania Kindersley
#15. I've never been able to learn from other people's mistakes - I'm not that smart - so I usually learn by trial by fire.
Shia Labeouf
#16. It's good to learn from your mistakes. It's better to learn from other people's mistakes.
Warren Buffett
#17. I think often I learn the most from other people's mistakes. If I'm in the audience watching an actor and thinking, 'I don't believe you,' I spend the rest of the play working out why I don't believe them.
Richard Madden
#18. Anyone who can't learn from other people's mistakes simply can't learn, and that;s all there is to it. There is value in the wrong way of doing things. The knowledge gained from errors contributes to our knowledge base.
Ben Carson
#19. F1 is giving penalties for people making mistakes instead of for people driving dirty. And that is wrong. Mistakes happen. You run into each other: that's life, that's racing, and too bad.
Jacques Villeneuve
#20. The only people, scientific or other, who never make mistakes are those who do nothing.
Thomas Huxley
#21. Never try to hide the real you. Be yourself and stand up for what you believe in. Question what other people tell you, think things though. Never regret your mistakes as there's a reason for everything.Grudges are toxic and heavy to bear. Let them go, learn from everything and continue to grow.
Karen Gibbs
#22. I'd much rather have AIDS than a baby ... They're not that different at all. They're both expensive, you have them for the rest of your life, they're constant reminders of the mistakes you've made and once you have them, you pretty much can only date other people who have them.
Donald Glover
#23. Were we to think more of our own mistakes and offences, we should be less apt to judge other people.
Matthew Henry
#24. The advantage in today's society is that there is so much information about everything. It means that you don't have to repeat all the mistakes yourself but can learn by seeing how other people have done.
Peter Jumrukovski
#25. As corny as it sounds, Gallagher said, life is very long. You're supposed to mess up when you're young and other people sometimes benefit from your mistakes-as you did in this case. But things rarely stay the same. People grow up and change. They move on.
Elizabeth Brundage
#26. The person who is to succeed will never let his mind dwell on past mistakes. He will forgive the past in his life and in the lives of other people. If he makes a mistake he will at once forgive it.
Ernest Holmes
#27. I fretted myself about the mistakes of government, like other people; but finding myself every day grow more angry, and the government growing no better, I left it to mend itself.
Oliver Goldsmith
#28. I truly believed that other people in my position didn't make mistakes; I couldn't see that everybody makes them, even people with great experience.
Katharine Graham
#29. We are all a people in need. We are not perfect. We are not machines. We make mistakes. We need grace. We need compassion. We need help at times. We need other people. And that's okay.
Jamie Tworkowski
#30. I make mistakes and I move on. That's what I do, that's what I've always done. I leave, and other people leave. You're the first person in my whole life who stayed. And then you were taken away. But now you're here again ... and you're trying to leave me. That fucking hurts, too.
Jane Harvey-Berrick
#31. None of us are bad people. We float around and we run across each other and we learn about ourselves, and we make mistakes and we do great things. We hurt others, we hurt ourselves, we make others happy and we please ourselves. We can and should forgive ourselves and each other for that.
Dan Harmon
#32. He who dishonors himself [by lying about his opinions] for the sake of being honored by others will find that two mistakes have been made - one by himself, and the other, by the people.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#33. I mean, we have to read books or we'll make mistakes. If we read stories of how other people lived, we can figure out better ways to live. I mean we can look at other people's lives and not make the same mistakes they made. Or we can, like, use their examples as models for ourselves.
Rachel DeWoskin
#34. People love to do such things, attempting to degrade other individuals for their mistakes to fulfill their inner will in order to feel more noteworthy.
Aditi Dufare
#35. 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
#36. People like us can't afford to be surprised, Sarah. We don't have the luxury of making mistakes or being caught unaware. We have to sense who's on the other side of the door before they knock, and we have to know if they're a friend or an enemy.
Robert Ferrigno
#37. The two worst strategic mistakes to make are acting prematurely and letting an opportunity slip; to avoid this, the warrior treats each situation as if it were unique and never resorts to formulae, recipes or other people's opinions.
Paulo Coelho
#38. Anyway, if you need your heroes to be perfect, you won't have very many. Even Superman had his Kryptonite. I'd rather have my heroes be more like me: trying to do the right thing, sometimes messing up. Making mistakes. Saying you're sorry. And forgiving other people when they mess up, too.
Madeleine George
#39. You go on these Internet blogs and people say the meanest things. I'm a normal person. Just because I'm in the spotlight doesn't mean I'm God's gift to the world. I'm learning and making mistakes just like every other 17-year-old girl out there.
Hayden Panettiere
#40. I made a lot of mistakes, a lot of things I'm not proud of. But it's only for other people to learn from.
Allen Iverson
#41. Mistakes are the best teachers. One does not learn from success. It is desirable to learn vicariously from other people's failures, but it gets much more firmly seared in when they are your own.
Mohnish Pabrai
#42. People are human beings. They talk about stuff, they make mistakes, they try to impress each other with their tidbits.
Tim Daly
#43. We would make mistakes, we would argue, we would make up. We would lose the people we love and find new ones, and hold our memories close. We would fight for each other, again and again. We would keep living. We were in love.
And we were only human, after all.
Jocelyn Davies
#44. 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
#45. I've just been watching other people's releases and learning from their mistakes. I know I'm bound to make a couple of my own, but I've got a couple ideas that I think are going to help get it out.
JD Era
#46. What's always right?" "Kindness," Pitt answered with certainty. "Keeping your promises. Not giving up just because it gets hard. Owning up to your mistakes, and not blaming other people even if you would get away with it.
Anne Perry
#47. If you rely exclusively on the advice of others, you may make terrible mistakes. Your heart knows what you need. Other people have other agendas.
Brian L. Weiss
#48. Growing up, I would have to watch the other children and learn from my mistakes. I would have to push myself to overcome the things most people don't have to think about. Brushing my teeth was very difficult because of the noise of the brush.
Daniel Tammet
#49. You learn from the mistakes you make and from the mistakes other people make. The truth is, you don't learn from success; you learn from failure.
George Clooney
#50. There were a lot of missteps in the early days, but because we got in early we got to make more mistakes than other people.
Bill Gates
#51. People who make mistakes but try their best, other people will support. But people who make mistakes because they're lazy, nobody supports.
Nobu Matsuhisa
#52. I don't have many regrets. I regret mistakes, particularly those that damage other people, and we've all made some of those. But I'm not sad about change.
John Gutfreund
#53. Nothing was irrevocable; everything was within reach ... I could make promises to myself and to other people and there would be all the time in the world to keep them. I could stay up all night and make mistakes, and none of it would count.
Joan Didion
#54. Free government is the most difficult of all government. But it is everlastingly true that the plain people will make fewer mistakes than any other group of men, no matter how powerful.
Herbert Hoover
#55. All we can do if we're lucky is stich up the mistakes other people make.
Jessie Burton
#56. I made mistakes. I let other people influence me and make decisions, sometimes without my knowledge.
Cathy Moriarty
#57. He had the desperation, not the courage, to be himself. Once you do that, you can't go wrong, because you can't make any mistakes when people love you for being yourself. But for Kurt, it didn't matter that other people loved him; he simply didn't love himself enough.
Charles R. Cross
#58. Don't make the same mistakes that everyone else makes. Make wonderful mistakes. Make the kind of mistakes that make people so shocked that they have no other choice but to be a little impressed.
Jenny Lawson
#59. We don't live through life only by our own experiences, we live through life with other people's experience as a reference too.
Nike Thaddeus
#60. You could never teach other people anything that mattered. The important things they had to learn for themselves, almost always by making mistakes, so that the lessons arrived too late to help. Experience was in that sense useless. It was precisely what could not be passed along in a lesson.
Kim Stanley Robinson
#61. One of the most common mistakes people make in any conversation is to think about what they want to say next instead of actually listening to what the other person is saying.
Max Weiss
#62. Everyone's life is a mess. Everyone's. We all make mistakes ... and not just little slip-ups. Major mistakes that hurt us and other people.
James Alan Gardner
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