Quotes About Our Own Mistakes

#1. I dread our own mistakes more than the enemy's intentions.

Thucydides

#2. None of us can know what it's like for someone else. It's what makes us individuals. We each have our own pain, our own mistakes. But we can reach out toward each other, help each other. That's what makes us human.

Steven James

#3. It is not what others do or even our own mistakes that hurt us the most; it is our response to those things.

Stephen R. Covey

#4. Recognising our own mistakes helps us to empathise non-judgementally with others and helps enable us to understand their issues.

Jay Woodman

#5. I am more afraid of our own mistakes than of our enemies' designs.

Pericles

#6. If we are surrounded by flawless individuals, it can make our own mistakes seem magnified. And if a problem appears overlarge, it becomes more intimidating to attempt to overcome it.

John Wooden

#7. It is always easier to blame gods or legends than it is to face our own mistakes.

Susan Dennard

#8. If there ever was a misnomer, it is "exact science." Science has always been full of mistakes. The present day is no exception. And our mistakes are good mistakes; they require a genius to correct. Of course, we do not see our own mistakes.

Edward Teller

#9. Were we to think more of our own mistakes and offences, we should be less apt to judge other people.

Matthew Henry

#10. It's funny how easy it is to point out other peoples mistakes and make our own mistakes seem insignificant.

Jack Kirby

#11. We are very good judges for the mistakes of others, but very good defence lawyers for our own mistakes.

Nicky Gumbel

#12. Is it ghosts that truly haunt us, or the memory of our own mistakes that we wish we could undo?

Laura Lam

#13. It's good to make mistakes whether they are common or obscure, we learn more from our own mistakes while working rather than from any book or lecture.

Tanay Pant

#14. I would dower you with experience, without experience.
and I, in my turn, would pass that on to you.
But we make our own mistakes. We sleep unwisely

Neil Gaiman

#15. One of life's greatest lessons is learning from our own mistakes.

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

#16. The strong tendency to blame others is a barrier, an obstacle for the comprehension of our own mistakes.

Samael Aun Weor

#17. We're each our own person, we live our own lives, make our own mistakes, learn from them and move forward.

Debbie Macomber

#18. Most young people make films to be accepted, to be discovered, when in fact that was the last idea with the group I went to film school with. To be discovered was not our intention. Our intention was to tell our story our way, and make our own mistakes and learn from film to film.

Haile Gerima

#19. Because it is always easier to blame gods or legends than it is to face our own mistakes. This land is no more cursed than any other. It is simply steeped in too much blood.

Susan Dennard

#20. I feel like I've been very smart in the way that I carry myself and treat myself. I feel like my mom was a big part of that just because she's always let us make our own decisions, and we've known very much about the mistakes and the dangers already of whatever this Hollywood life may be.

Evan Ross

#21. If we don't know our own history, then we simply will have to endure all of the same mistakes, all of the same sacrifices, all of the same absurdities over again - times ten.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#22. We serve a gracious Master who knows how to overrule even our mistakes to his glory and our own advantage.

John Newton

#23. We are our own worst enemy and make no mistake we are destroying ourselves.

Bryant McGill

#24. Sometimes ... I think parents work so hard to keep us from making their mistakes, they won't allow us to make our own.

Charles Sheehan-Miles

#25. I have a great appreciation for our world's history. I learn from my own mistakes, I learn from the mistakes we've made as a human race.

Lana Del Rey

#26. I don't have time to beat myself up over my fallible nature. Instead I use my energy to learn from my past and let it inform my future. It's time to own all of our glory, mistakes, mess and light and be gentle to ourselves. Let's be kind to our spirits and celebrate the truth of our hearts.

Grace Gealey

#27. Of course, we are drawn to teachers who unconsciously mirror our own psychology. None of us are clean. We all make mistakes. It's the repetition of those mistakes and the refusal to look at them that compound the suffering and assure their continuation.

Natalie Goldberg

#28. It is partly because we are so willing to blame others for their mistakes that we are so keen to conceal our own. We

Matthew Syed

#29. Atlantis was one name for an ancient civilization that went through a terrible catastrophe and that we now have the opportunity to not repeat the same mistakes. We have the opportunity to use our technology responsibly and to steward the earth rather than steer it into its own destruction.

David Wilcock

#30. I don't expect our leaders to be free of mistakes, I expect our leaders to own up to them.

Paul Rieckhoff

#31. Perhaps the gods punish us by bringing us face to face with our own foolish mistakes, condemning us to watch our children fall into the same traps that crippled us.

Robin Hobb

#32. And certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we are so fond of it.

George Eliot

#33. Innocence is doomed to die a senseless death at our own hands, a casualty of the mistakes we can never undo. So we lay to rest the wide-eyed wonder we once thrived upon, replacing it with the scars of which we never speak, too knotted for any amount of technology to repair.

Neal Shusterman

#34. Tragedy may hit all of us in one way or another, but fate's not our enemy, Brooke. We are. By locking yourself away from the world, you choose your own mistakes and destroy any chance of ever finding happiness. You cannot control life, but you can chose who you are and what you make of it.

J.C. Reed

#35. The premise of this book is that it is easier to recognize other people's mistakes than our own.

Daniel Kahneman

#36. It is often easier to learn from the mistakes of others than from our own.

Clarence H. Burns

#37. There's a point to all the mistakes, the comebacks, the rethinking, the living
the living for all you're worth. There's a point to finding our own path. Please, give the people of Vision a chance to find theirs.

Miyuki Miyabe

#38. 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

#39. Every age has its own outlook. It is specially good at seeing certain truths and specially liable to make certain mistakes. We all, therefore, need the books that will correct the characteristic mistake of our own period. And that means the old books.

C.S. Lewis

#40. Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.

Cullen Hightower

#41. 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.

Natsuki Takaya

#42. [W]hen we make mistakes, we shrug and say that we are human. As bats are batty and slugs are sluggish, our own species is synonymous with screwing up.

Kathryn Schulz

#43. Why be concerned with gossip? Because it is much easier, as well as far more enjoyable, to identify and label the mistakes of others than to recognize our own.

Daniel Kahneman

#44. It is part of the human nature always to judge others very severely and,when the wind turns against us,always to find an excuse for our own misdeeds,or to blame someone else for our mistakes.

Paulo Coelho

#45. We learn a lot from the mistakes of others, but even more from our own.

Fausto Cercignani

#46. We all must do what Christ did. We must make our experiment. We must make mistakes. We must live out our own version of life. And there will be error. If you avoid error you do not live.

Carl Jung

#47. We make mistakes, we have our faults, and God knows some of us have more than our share, but when danger threatens and duty calls, we go smiling to our own funeral.

James Larkin

#48. We are all small-minded people, creeping about the earth grubbing for our own advantage and making the very mistakes for which we want to humiliate our neighbors.

Helen Simonson

#49. We learn from each other. We learn from others' mistakes, from their experience, their wisdom. It makes it easier for us to come to better decisions in our own lives.

Adrian Grenier

#50. I incline to an aristocratic republic. This would satisfy the ambitious spirit among our people. We shall learn from the historic mistakes of others in the same way as we learn from our own; for we are a modern nation and wish to be the most modern in the world.

Theodor Herzl

#51. Look at the United States today. We have made mistakes in the past. We have had shortcomings. We shall make mistakes in the future and fall short of our own best hopes.

Henry Cabot Lodge

#52. Because it is much easier, as well as far more enjoyable, to identify and label the mistakes of others than to recognize our own. Questioning what we believe and want is difficult at the

Daniel Kahneman

#53. People screw up. People screw up a lot. We allow our own selfishness to overpower us at times. It happens. But you can't allow that to tear you down. You can't keep dwelling on your past choices, and your past actions, or else you'll never learn from them.

Nicole Sobon

#54. We don't live through life only by our own experiences, we live through life with other people's experience as a reference too.

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